OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 14:10

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The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

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Verse 10. Stranger. Such cannot well comfort the afflicted. A man is alone acquainted with the affections of his own heart. Septuagint “he mixeth not insult” (Sym.) “with strangers.”

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