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New Living Translation

Proverbs 14:13

Laughter can conceal a heavy heart, but when the laughter ends, the grief remains.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Amusements and Worldly Pleasures;   Happiness;   Joy;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Earthly;   Joy;   Joy-Sorrow;   Laughter;   Sinners;   Sorrow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amusements and Pleasures, Worldly;   Happiness of the Wicked, the;   Joy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joy;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Laughter;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heavy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joy;  

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
New Century Version
Someone who is laughing may be sad inside, and joy may end in sadness.
New English Translation
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.
World English Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, And mirth may end in heaviness.
Amplified Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.
English Standard Version
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Leiyyng schal be medlid with sorewe; and morenyng ocupieth the laste thingis of ioye.
English Revised Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of mirth is heaviness.
Berean Standard Bible
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
Contemporary English Version
Sorrow may hide behind laughter, and happiness may end in sorrow.
American Standard Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
Bible in Basic English
Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
Complete Jewish Bible
Even in laughter the heart can be sad, and joy may end in sorrow.
Darby Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Laughter might hide your sadness. But when the laughter is gone, the sadness remains.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even in laughter the heart acheth; and the end of mirth is heaviness.
King James Version (1611)
Euen in laughter the heart is sorrowfull; and the end of that mirth is heauinesse.
New Life Bible
Even while laughing the heart may be in pain, and the end of joy may be sorrow.
New Revised Standard
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen in laughing the heart is sorowful, and the ende of that mirth is heauinesse.
George Lamsa Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of joy is grief.
Good News Translation
Laughter may hide sadness. When happiness is gone, sorrow is always there.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even, in laughter, the heart may be in pain, and, the latter end of gladness, be grief.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning taketh hold of the ends of joy.
Revised Standard Version
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The heart is sorowfull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heauinesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Grief mingles not with mirth; and joy in the end comes to grief.
Christian Standard Bible®
Even in laughter a heart may be sad,and joy may end in grief.
Hebrew Names Version
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, And mirth may end in heaviness.
King James Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Lexham English Bible
Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy may be grief.
Literal Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness.
Young's Literal Translation
Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy [is] affliction.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse.
New American Standard Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.
New King James Version
Even in laughter the heart may sorrow, And the end of mirth may be grief.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,And the end of joy may be grief.

Contextual Overview

13 Laughter can conceal a heavy heart, but when the laughter ends, the grief remains.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 5:4, Ecclesiastes 2:2, Ecclesiastes 2:10, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 7:5, Ecclesiastes 7:6, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Luke 16:25, James 4:9, Revelation 18:7, Revelation 18:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:41 - as they Luke 6:25 - laugh

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
Genesis 14:24
I will accept only what my young warriors have already eaten, and I request that you give a fair share of the goods to my allies—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre."
Genesis 39:14
she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. "Look!" she said. "My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.
Genesis 40:15
For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I'm here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it."
Genesis 41:12
There was a young Hebrew man with us in the prison who was a slave of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he told us what each of our dreams meant.
Genesis 43:32
The waiters served Joseph at his own table, and his brothers were served at a separate table. The Egyptians who ate with Joseph sat at their own table, because Egyptians despise Hebrews and refuse to eat with them.
Exodus 2:6
When the princess opened it, she saw the baby. The little boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This must be one of the Hebrew children," she said.
Exodus 2:11
Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.
Numbers 21:21
The Israelites sent ambassadors to King Sihon of the Amorites with this message:
1 Samuel 4:12
A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battlefield and arrived at Shiloh later that same day. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head to show his grief.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful,.... As Belshazzar's was in the midst of his feast and jollity, when he saw the writing on the wall; so sin may stare a man in the face, and guilt load his conscience and fill him with sorrow, amidst his merriment; a man may put on a merry countenance, and feign a laugh, when his heart is very sorrowful; and oftentimes this sorrow comes by sinful laughter, by mocking at sin and jesting at religion;

and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness: sometimes in this life a sinner mourns at last, and mourns for his wicked mirth, or that he has made himself so merry with religious persons and things, and oftentimes when it is too late; so the end of that mirth the fool in the Gospel promised himself was heaviness, when his soul was required of him; this was the case of the rich man who had his good things here, and his evil things hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sorrow of some kind either mingles itself with outward joy, or follows hard upon it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful — Many a time is a smile forced upon the face, when the heart is in deep distress. And it is a hard task to put on the face of mirth, when a man has a heavy heart.


 
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