Text -- Proverbs 14:13 (NET)

14:13 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 14:13

¹ sn No joy is completely free of grief. There is a joy that is superficial and there is underlying pain that will remain after the joy is gone.

² tn Heb “and its end, joy, is grief.” The suffix may be regarded as an Aramaism, a proleptic suffix referring to “joy.”

³ tn The phrase “may be” is not in the Hebrew but is supplied from the parallelism, which features an imperfect of possibility.