The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
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Gill's Exposition
The heart knoweth his own bitterness,.... Or "the bitterness of his soul" (l), the distress of his conscience, the anguish of his mind; the heart of man only knows the whole of it; something of it may…
Barnes' Notes
A striking expression of the ultimate solitude of each man’s soul at all times, and not merely at the hour of death. Something there is in every sorrow, and in every joy, which no one else can share.…
Matthew Henry
This agrees with Co1 2:11, What man knows the things of a man, and the changes of his temper, save the spirit of a man? 1. Every man feels most from his own burden, especially that which is a burden…
Cambridge Bible
The poet of the Christian Yearhas caught something of the beauty and pathos of this proverb as he writes:
"Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe
Our hermit spirits dwell and range apart."
"Nor e'en…
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