Proverbs 14:10
The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his soul; a stranger shall not be meddled in the joy thereof. (The heart knoweth the bitterness of its own soul; a stranger cannot be mixed in, or mingled, with its joy.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10and when she was in bitter sorrow of soul, she prayed (to) the Lord, and wept largely (or and greatly wept);
2 Kings 4:27And when she had come to the man of God, into the hill, she took (hold of) his feet; and Gehazi nighed, that he should remove her. And the man of God said, Suffer thou her; for her soul is in bitterness, and the Lord hath held it privy from me, and showed it not to me. (But when she had come to the man of God, on the hill, she took hold of his feet; and Gehazi came over, so that he could move her away. And the man of God said, Allow thou her; for her soul is bitter for some reason, and the Lord hath kept it secret from me, and hath not showed it to me.)
Job 6:4For (now) the arrows of the Lord be in me, the indignation of which drinketh up my spirit; and the dreads of the Lord fight against me (or and the terrors from the Lord fight against me).
Job 9:18He granteth not, that my spirit have rest, (or He granteth not, that I catch my breath), and he filleth me with bitternesses.
Psalms 25:14The Lord is a firmness to men dreading him; and his testament is, that it be showed to them. (The Lord shall share his secrets with those who fear him or with those who revere him; and he shall show his covenant to them.)
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man sustaineth (him in) his feebleness; but who may sustain a spirit light to be wroth? (A person’s spirit can sustain him in sickness; but who can endure with a broken spirit?)
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:10
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin. They make a laughing matter of the sins of others, making themselves and their companions merry with that for which they should mourn, and they make a light matter of their own sins, both when they are tempted to sin and when they have committed it; they call evil good and good evil ( Isa. v. 20 ), turn it off with a jest, rush into sin ( Jer. viii. 6 ) and… Read the whole commentary →