The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the foolishness of the fools is deceit.

The fool maketh a mock of [a]sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

10 The heart knoweth the [b]bitterness of his soul, and the stranger shall not meddle with his joy.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:9 Doth not know the grievousness thereof, nor God’s judgments against the same.
  2. Proverbs 14:10 As a man’s conscience is witness of his own grief, so another cannot feel the joy and comfort which a man feeleth in himself.

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