Parallel Verses
King James 2000
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
New American Standard Bible
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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
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.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 15:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
14 The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast. 16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with trouble.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
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 merry heart does 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, 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 a 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 your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
Acts 16:25
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Romans 5:2-3
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:11
And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus 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 as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also 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 fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward 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 you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:
1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice, since you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.