Parallel Verses

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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 that has understanding seeks wisdom, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. 15 All the days of the afflicted are bad,
But a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.



Cross References

Proverbs 15:13

A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries 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 into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Psalm 90:7-9

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

Acts 16:25

But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,

Romans 5:2-3

by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Romans 5:11

And not only this, but we even glory in God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

2 Corinthians 1:5

For in the same manner that the sufferings of the Christ abound in us, so also our consolation abounds by Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 6:10

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

1 Peter 1:6-8

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

1 Peter 4:13

but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of the afflictions of the Christ, so that also in the revelation of his glory, ye may rejoice in triumph.

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