Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs 14:13 in other translations
| BSB | Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow. |
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| WEB | Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness. |
| ASV | Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness. |
| YLT | Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction. |
| DARBY | Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness. |
| BBE | Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow. |
| Webster | Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. |
What does Proverbs 14:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Proverbs 14:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 14:13
- Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
- James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
- Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
- Ecclesiastes 7:5-6
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
- Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
- Revelation 18:7-8
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Context
- Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Proverbs 14:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aun en la risa tendrá dolor el corazón; y el término de la alegría es congoja. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Même dans le rire le cœur est triste; et la fin de la joie, c’est le chagrin. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Auch beim Lachen hat das Herz Kummer, und ihr, der Freude, Ende ist Traurigkeit. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Risus dolore miscebitur, et extrema gaudii luctus occupat. |