Proverbs 14:10
Good News Translation
Your joy is your own; your bitterness is your own. No one can share them with you.

New Revised Standard Version
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Contemporary English Version
No one else can really know how sad or happy you are.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.

heart

Proverbs 15:13 A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast down.

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?

1 Samuel 1:10 As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,

2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Job 6:2-4 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Job 9:18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Ezekiel 3:14 The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

Mark 14:33,34 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

his

Genesis 42:21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

and

Psalm 25:14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

John 14:18,23 I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you. . . .

Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give the hidden manna and will give him a white counter: and in the counter, a new name written, which no man knoweth but he that receiveth it.

Context
The Wise Woman
9A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide. 10The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.11The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10
As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,

Job 21:25
But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:

Proverbs 14:9
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