the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Proverbs 14:10
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The heart knows its own bitterness; And a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy.
No one else can know your sadness, and strangers cannot share your joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.
The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; He will not share these with a stranger.
The heart knows its own bitterness, And no stranger shares its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
The herte that knowith the bittirnesse of his soule; a straunger schal not be meddlid in the ioie therof.
The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
No one else can really know how sad or happy you are.
The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger can share its joy.
The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
When you are sad, no one else feels the pain; and when you are happy, no one else can really feel the joy.
The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and with its joy no stranger can intermeddle.
The heart knoweth his owne bitternesse; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his ioy.
The heart knows when it is bitter, and a stranger cannot share its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
The heart knoweth the bitternes of his soule, & the stranger shall not medle with his ioy.
Fools commit sins; but the children of the upright have good will.
Your joy is your own; your bitterness is your own. No one can share them with you.
The heart, knoweth its own bitterness, and, in its joy, no stranger shareth.
The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
The heart knoweth his owne soules bitternesse: and the straunger shall not be partaker of his ioy.
If a man’s mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.
The heart knows its own bitterness,and no outsider shares in its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; He will not share these with a stranger.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger.
The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, and a stranger does not mix in its joy.
The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
The herte of him that hath vnderstondinge wil nether dispare for eny sorow, ner be to presumptuous for eny sodane ioye.
The person who shuns the bitter moments of friends will be an outsider at their celebrations.
The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.
The heart knows its own bitterness,And a stranger does not share its gladness.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heart: Proverbs 15:13, Proverbs 18:14, 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Kings 4:27, Job 6:2-4, Job 7:11, Job 9:18, Job 10:1, Ezekiel 3:14, Mark 14:33, Mark 14:34, John 12:27
his: etc. Heb. the bitterness of his soul, Genesis 42:21
and: Psalms 25:14, John 14:18, John 14:23, Philippians 4:7, 1 Peter 1:8, Revelation 2:17
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:38 - the plague 2 Chronicles 6:29 - know Job 21:25 - in the bitterness Proverbs 3:32 - his Proverbs 12:25 - Heaviness Proverbs 14:14 - a good John 4:32 - that John 14:17 - whom 1 Corinthians 2:11 - what
Cross-References
They began saying to each other, "Let's make bricks and harden them with fire." (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)
When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, "Run for your lives! And don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"
Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters.
When the Israelite army finished chasing and killing all the men of Ai in the open fields, they went back and finished off everyone inside.
They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap, and those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare. Destruction falls like rain from the heavens; the foundations of the earth shake.
"Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap, and those who escape the trap will step into a snare. I will see to it that you do not get away, for the time of your judgment has come," says the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The heart knoweth his own bitterness,.... Or "the bitterness of his soul" l, the distress of his conscience, the anguish of his mind; the heart of man only knows the whole of it; something of it may be known to others by his looks, his words, and gestures, but not all of it; see 1 Corinthians 2:10; bitterness of soul often arises from outward troubles, pains, and diseases of body, losses, crosses, and disappointments, 1 Samuel 1:10. Sometimes it is upon spiritual accounts; but this is not the case of every heart; men may be in the gall of bitterness, and have no bitterness of soul on account of it; the sensualist and voluptuous worldling feels nothing of it, nor the hardened and hardhearted sinner; only such who are awakened and convinced by the Spirit of God; to these, as sin is a bitter thing in itself, it is so to their taste; it makes hitter work for repentance in them; it brings trembling and astonishment on them; fills them with shame and confusion of face, causes self-loathing and abhorrence, and severe reflections upon themselves; seeing sin in its own colours, they are cut to the heart and killed with it; they are pressed down with the guilt of sin, and the load of it; and, having no views of pardon, are in that distress and bitterness of soul which no tongue can express nor heart conceive but what has felt the same;
and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy; or "mingle himself with it" m; he does not share in it or partake of it; this is more especially true of spiritual joy, which, as it is unspeakable to the man that possesses it, it passes the understanding of a natural man; he can form no true idea of it: spiritual joy is what a sensible sinner partakes of upon the Gospel, the joyful sound of salvation, reaching his ears and his heart, at the revelation of Christ in him and to him, as a Saviour; when an application of pardoning grace is made to his soul, and he has a view of the complete righteousness of Christ, and his interest in it, and can see all his sins expiated and stoned for by his sacrifice; when he is favoured with a sight of the fulness of grace in Christ, and of the spiritual and eternal salvation he has wrought out for him; and likewise when he is indulged with a visit from him, and enjoys communion with him; and when he has a glimpse of eternal glory, and a well grounded hope of right unto it, and meetness for it: now a stranger, one that is a stranger to God and godliness, to Christ and the way of salvation by him, to the Spirit and his work of grace upon the heart, to the Gospel and the doctrines of it, to his own heart and the plague of it, to the saints and communion with them; knows nothing at all of the above joy, nor can he interrupt it, nor take it away.
l מרת נפשו "amaritudine animae suae", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. m לא יתערב "non immiscet se", Michaelis, so Tigurine version; "non miscebit sese", Baynus; "non intermiscet se", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A striking expression of the ultimate solitude of each man’s soul at all times, and not merely at the hour of death. Something there is in every sorrow, and in every joy, which no one else can share. Beyond that range it is well to remember that there is a Divine Sympathy, uniting perfect knowledge and perfect love.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 14:10. The heart knoweth his own bitterness — מרת נפשו morrath naphsho, "The bitterness of its soul." Under spiritual sorrow, the heart feels, the soul feels; all the animal nature feels and suffers. But when the peace of God is spoken to the troubled soul, the joy is indescribable; the whole man partakes of it. And a stranger to these religious feelings, to the travail of the soul, and to the witness of the Spirit, does not intermeddle with them; he does not understand them: indeed they may be even foolishness to him, because they are spiritually discerned.
