Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, ¹  and with its joy no one else ²  can share. ³ 

biblegateway Pro 14:10

Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no-one else can share its joy.

biblegateway Pro 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.

biblegateway Pro 14:10

Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can fully share its joy.

biblegateway Pro 14:10

The person who shuns the bitter moments of friends will be an outsider at their celebrations.

SABDAweb Pro 14:10

No one has knowledge of a man’s grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

bibleoremus Pro 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

biblegateway Pro 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.

biblegateway Pro 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, ¹  and with its joy no one else ²  can share. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “bitterness of its soul.”

² tn Heb “stranger” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

³ tn The verb is the Hitpael of II עָרַב (’arav), which means “to take in pledge; to give in pledge; to exchange.” Here it means “to share [in].” The proverb is saying that there are joys and sorrows that cannot be shared. No one can truly understand the deepest feelings of another.