Proverbs 14:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The heart knoweth his own bitterness— "Nobody can know what another suffers, so well as the sufferer himself; and he alone is privy to the greatness of that joy which springs from the happy conclusion of his sufferings." Houbigant renders the verse, He who divulges the trouble of his soul, shall not have another to partake of his joy: i.e. "He who cannot keep to himself his own afflictions, but is continually teizing others with the relation of them, will so weary every one out, as to render them perfectly indifferent to his good or ill fortune."

Proverbs 14:10

10 The heart knoweth his owna bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.