Proverbs 14:10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.