Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.

New American Standard Bible

All the days of the afflicted are bad,
But a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

King James Version

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Holman Bible

All the days of the oppressed are miserable,
but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

International Standard Version

The entire life of the afflicted seems disastrous, but a good heart feasts continuously.

American Standard Version

All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.

Amplified


All the days of the afflicted are bad,
But a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of the circumstances].

Bible in Basic English

All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

Darby Translation

All the days of the afflicted are evil; but a cheerful heart is a continual feast.

Julia Smith Translation

All the days of the afflicted are evil: and the good of heart drinking always.

King James 2000

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

Lexham Expanded Bible

All the days of the poor [are] hard, but goodness of heart [is] a continuous feast.

Modern King James verseion

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but gladness of heart is a continual feast.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

All the days of the poor are miserable; but a quiet heart is as a continual feast.

NET Bible

All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

New Heart English Bible

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

The Emphasized Bible

All the days of the afflicted, are sorrowful, but, a cheerful heart, is a continual banquet.

Webster

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

World English Bible

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Youngs Literal Translation

All the days of the afflicted are evil, And gladness of heart is a perpetual banquet.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
All the days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

of the afflicted
עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

but he that is of a merry
טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 553

Verse Info

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

14 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast. 16 Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.



Cross References

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it, but the correction of fools is folly.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Psalm 90:7-9

For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

Acts 16:25

Now toward midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, were singing praises to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Romans 5:2-3

through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:11

And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, enduring tribulation, persevering in prayer,

2 Corinthians 1:5

Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

1 Peter 1:6-8

In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

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