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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart can be sad, and joy may end in sorrow.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Amusements and Worldly Pleasures;   Happiness;   Joy;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Earthly;   Joy;   Joy-Sorrow;   Laughter;   Sinners;   Sorrow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amusements and Pleasures, Worldly;   Happiness of the Wicked, the;   Joy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joy;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Laughter;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heavy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even in laughter a heart may be sad,and joy may end in grief.
Hebrew Names Version
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, And mirth may end in heaviness.
King James Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
English Standard Version
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
New American Standard Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.
New Century Version
Someone who is laughing may be sad inside, and joy may end in sadness.
New English Translation
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
Amplified Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.
World English Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, And mirth may end in heaviness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen in laughing the heart is sorowful, and the ende of that mirth is heauinesse.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,And the end of joy may be grief.
Berean Standard Bible
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
Contemporary English Version
Sorrow may hide behind laughter, and happiness may end in sorrow.
Darby Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Laughter might hide your sadness. But when the laughter is gone, the sadness remains.
George Lamsa Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of joy is grief.
Good News Translation
Laughter may hide sadness. When happiness is gone, sorrow is always there.
Lexham English Bible
Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy may be grief.
Literal Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse.
American Standard Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
Bible in Basic English
Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even in laughter the heart acheth; and the end of mirth is heaviness.
King James Version (1611)
Euen in laughter the heart is sorrowfull; and the end of that mirth is heauinesse.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The heart is sorowfull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heauinesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Grief mingles not with mirth; and joy in the end comes to grief.
English Revised Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of mirth is heaviness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Leiyyng schal be medlid with sorewe; and morenyng ocupieth the laste thingis of ioye.
Update Bible Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.
New King James Version
Even in laughter the heart may sorrow, And the end of mirth may be grief.
New Living Translation
Laughter can conceal a heavy heart, but when the laughter ends, the grief remains.
New Life Bible
Even while laughing the heart may be in pain, and the end of joy may be sorrow.
New Revised Standard
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even, in laughter, the heart may be in pain, and, the latter end of gladness, be grief.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning taketh hold of the ends of joy.
Revised Standard Version
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
Young's Literal Translation
Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy [is] affliction.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.

Contextual Overview

13 Even in laughter the heart can be sad, and joy may end in sorrow.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 5:4, Ecclesiastes 2:2, Ecclesiastes 2:10, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 7:5, Ecclesiastes 7:6, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Luke 16:25, James 4:9, Revelation 18:7, Revelation 18:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:41 - as they Luke 6:25 - laugh

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
the Y'vusi, the Emori, the Girgashi,
Genesis 14:24
I will take only what my troops have eaten and the share of the spoil belonging to the men who came with me — ‘Aner, Eshkol and Mamre; let them have their share."
Genesis 39:14
she called the men of her house and said to them, "Look at this! My husband brought in a Hebrew to make fools of us. He came in and wanted to sleep with me, but I yelled out loudly.
Genesis 40:15
For the truth is that I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing wrong that would justify putting me in this dungeon."
Genesis 41:12
There was with us a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guard; and we told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us — he interpreted each man's dream individually.
Genesis 43:32
They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians included at the meal by themselves — Egyptians don't eat with Hebrews, because that is abhorrent to them.
Exodus 2:6
She opened it and looked inside, and there in front of her was a crying baby boy! Moved with pity, she said, "This must be one of the Hebrews' children."
Exodus 2:11
(iii) One day, when Moshe was a grown man, he went out to visit his kinsmen; and he watched them struggling at forced labor. He saw an Egyptian strike a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.
Numbers 21:21
(RY: iv, LY: vii) Isra'el sent messengers to Sichon, king of the Emori, with this message:
1 Samuel 4:12
One of the soldiers, a man from Binyamin, ran and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and earth on his head [as a sign of mourning].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful,.... As Belshazzar's was in the midst of his feast and jollity, when he saw the writing on the wall; so sin may stare a man in the face, and guilt load his conscience and fill him with sorrow, amidst his merriment; a man may put on a merry countenance, and feign a laugh, when his heart is very sorrowful; and oftentimes this sorrow comes by sinful laughter, by mocking at sin and jesting at religion;

and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness: sometimes in this life a sinner mourns at last, and mourns for his wicked mirth, or that he has made himself so merry with religious persons and things, and oftentimes when it is too late; so the end of that mirth the fool in the Gospel promised himself was heaviness, when his soul was required of him; this was the case of the rich man who had his good things here, and his evil things hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sorrow of some kind either mingles itself with outward joy, or follows hard upon it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful — Many a time is a smile forced upon the face, when the heart is in deep distress. And it is a hard task to put on the face of mirth, when a man has a heavy heart.


 
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