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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 14:10

"The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."There is here revealed a strange and terrible secret of human life. "The most sorrowful of all our experiences, and the most inward of all our joys, we must possess altogether alone. There is no such thing as a perfect fellowship among mortals. No human fellowship can give salvation, but only the fellowship with God, whose love and wisdom are capable of shining into that most secret sanctuary of human... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 14:10

Proverbs 14:10. The heart knoweth his own bitterness— "Nobody can know what another suffers, so well as the sufferer himself; and he alone is privy to the greatness of that joy which springs from the happy conclusion of his sufferings." Houbigant renders the verse, He who divulges the trouble of his soul, shall not have another to partake of his joy: i.e. "He who cannot keep to himself his own afflictions, but is continually teizing others with the relation of them, will so weary every one out,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 14:10

10. Each one best knows his own sorrows or joys. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 14:1-33

8. Further advice for wise living chs. 14-15These proverbs are more difficult to group together under a general heading because there are fewer common ideas that tie them together. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 14:1-35

1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10-31). 3. Of pride] RM ’for his pride.’4. Where there are no oxen men have not to labour at keeping the crib clean, but at the same time there is no profit. The men who unload coal in Calais harbour used to sing: ’The coalis black, but the money’s white.’8. The wise man’s concern is how shall he act; the foolish man’s how shall he deceive others. 9. Lit.’ the guilt-offering mocketh at fools.’ This seems to mean that fools trust... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 14:10

(10) The heart knoweth his own bitterness . . .—None Can perfectly sympathise with the sorrows or joys of others, except the ideal Son of Man, who came to “bear our griefs and carry our sorrows” (comp. Hebrews 4:15), yet could join in the marriage feast at Cana. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Proverbs 14:1-35

Sin and Its Mockers Proverbs 14:9 It is one thing to mock in such a fashion as that the sinning person shall say, 'This thing which the mirror holds up to me is base, contemptible, unprofitable, and I will henceforth abjure it'; and another thing to laugh in such a fashion as to make him imagine 'This thing is trivial, it is of no serious import whatsoever, and I will therefore conduct myself as I like. The first kind of mockery is the austere, if somewhat cynical, expression of moral... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:1-35

CHAPTER 15THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE"The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness."- Proverbs 14:13"Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know." -Matthew ArnoldWE know each other’s... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Proverbs 14:1-35

CHAPTER 14 The Wise and The Foolish: The Rich and The Poor The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them” Proverbs 14:3 . The foolish shoots forth his foolishness like a branch. Separation from the foolish man is commanded in the seventh verse. The wise cannot have fellowship with the foolish, as the believer is not to be yoked to the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 14:10

14:10 The heart knoweth its own {g} bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.(g) As a man’s conscience is witness to his own grief, so another cannot feel the joy and comfort which a man feels in himself. read more