Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. EVEN IN LAUGHTER THE HEART IS SORROWFUL - (cf. Proverbs 14:10.) The Hebrew for "is sorrowful" [ yikª'ab (H3510)] expresses grievous and penetrating sorrow (Job 2:13). The addition of "the heart" intensifies the sorrow (Gejer). While outwardly laughing, the man may have 'his own bitterness' within, which his "heart knoweth." AND THE END OF THAT MIRTH IS HEAVINESS. And even though there be no 'sorrows of' heart at the time, yet the end of mere earthly joy, however exuberant, is heaviness. Already the wise king was beginning to experience what he more fully states in...

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_....

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

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἐστὶ σώζειν οἰκίαν_._ "A good wife is the saving of a house." The versions render as above. A different pointing of the word translated "wise" (_chakhmoth_)_ _will give "wisdom" (_chokhmoth_)_, _which it seems best to read here, as the parallel to the abstract term "folly" in the second member. So we have, "Wisdom hath builded her house" (Proverbs 9:1; comp. Proverbs 1:20). Thus: "The wi

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....

CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them” Proverbs 14:3. The foolish shoots forth his foolishness like a branch. Separation from the foolish man is commanded in the seventh verse. The wise cannot have fellowship with the foolish, as the believer is not to be yoked to the unbeliever. Fools make a mock at sin Proverbs 14:9). The word “sin” in the original means “trespass offering.” That is exactly what the foolish man does, including the religious fool; he denies both sin and the blessed provision God has made to deliver from the guilt and power of sin. But among the righteous, says

PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political and social character, while a group that might be called psychological appears for the first time (_e.g._ Proverbs 14:10; Proverbs 14:13, and in part Proverbs 14:30). The contrast between wisdom and folly, simplicity and prudence, also yields a fairly numerous group. PROVERBS 14:1. MT cannot be translated. Proverbs 14:1 a is p

IS: i.e. may be. Illustrations: Nabal (1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Samuel 25:37); Solomon (Ecclesiastes 2:2); Belshazzar (Daniel 5:1; Daniel 5:30); Israelites (Amos 6:3); Babylon (Revelation 18:7; Revelation 18:8)....

_that mirth_ Rather, MIRTH. The statement is general though not universal. "The bright talker, the merry jester, the singer of the gay song, goes home when the party separates, and on his threshold he meets the veiled sorrow of his life, and plunges into the chilly shadow in which his days are spent." Horton....

DISCOURSE: 785 THE VANITY OF CARNAL MIRTH Proverbs 14:13. _Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness_. WE are apt to imagine, that whatever is sanctioned by the approbation and practice of the world at large, must be right: but we cannot have a more erroneous standard than popular opinion. This is sufficiently evident from the estimation in which mirth and laughter are generally held: they are supposed to constitute the chief happiness of man; whereas they are far from producing any solid happiness at all. To this mistake Solomon refers, in the words preceding the text; and in the text itself he confirms the truth of his own position. We shall, I. Demonstrate the vanity of carnal mirth— We mean not to condemn all kinds and degrees of mirth: there certainly is a measure of it that is conducive to good, rather than to