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Proverbs 14:4
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4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty,
    but from the strength of an ox(A) come abundant harvests.

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Proverbs 14:4
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4 Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean,
but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 14:4 tn Heb “the strength of oxen.” The genitive שׁוֹר (shor, “oxen”) functions as an attributed genitive: “strong oxen.” Strong oxen are indispensable for a good harvest, and for oxen to be strong they must be well-fed. The farmer has to balance grain consumption with the work oxen do.
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Proverbs 14:10
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10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
    and no one else can share its joy.

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Proverbs 14:10
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10 The heart knows its own bitterness,[a]
and with its joy no one else[b] can share.[c]

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  1. Proverbs 14:10 tn Heb “bitterness of its soul.”
  2. Proverbs 14:10 tn Heb “stranger” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
  3. Proverbs 14:10 tn The verb is the Hitpael of II עָרַב (ʿarav), which means “to take in pledge; to give in pledge; to exchange.” Here it means “to share [in].” The proverb is saying that there are joys and sorrows that cannot be shared. No one can truly understand the deepest feelings of another.
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Proverbs 14:13
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13 Even in laughter(A) the heart may ache,
    and rejoicing may end in grief.

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Proverbs 14:13
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13 Even in laughter the heart may ache,[a]
and the end[b] of joy may be[c] grief.

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  1. Proverbs 14:13 sn No joy is completely free of grief. There is a joy that is superficial and there is underlying pain that will remain after the joy is gone.
  2. Proverbs 14:13 tc Heb “and its end, joy, is grief.” The suffix may be regarded as an Aramaism, a proleptic suffix referring to “joy.” Or it may be considered a case of wrong word division, moving the ה (he) to read אַחֲרִית הַשִּׂמְחָה (ʾakharit hassimkhah, “after the joy [may be] grief”) rather than אַחֲרִיתָהּ שִׂמְחָה (ʾakharitah simkhah, “after it, joy, grief”).
  3. Proverbs 14:13 tn The phrase “may be” is not in the Hebrew but is supplied from the parallelism, which features an imperfect of possibility.
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