Proverbes 15:15

15 Tous les jours de l'affligé sont mauvais; mais un cœur joyeux est un festin continuel.

Proverbes 15:15 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 15:15

All the days of the afflicted [are] evil
And some are afflicted all their days, from their youth up; so that not only the days of old age are evil days, in which they have no pleasure, but even the days of their youth; all their days, as Jacob says, "few and evil have the days of the years of my life been", ( Genesis 47:9 ) ; because they had been filled up with affliction and trouble of one sort or another. Or, "all the days of the poor" ^F6; either in purse, who want many of the good things of life; or in knowledge, as Gersom and Aben Ezra observe; but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast;
a heart that has "the kingdom of God" in it, which lies "not [in] meat and drink, but [in] righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost", ( Romans 14:17 ) : which has the love of God shed abroad in it by the Spirit, where Christ dwells by faith; and that lives by faith on him, and on the provisions of his grace; all this is a constant continual feast to a gracious soul, made joyful hereby.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (yne) "pauperis", V. L. Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Michaelis.

Proverbes 15:15 In-Context

13 Le cœur joyeux embellit le visage; mais la tristesse du cœur abat l'esprit.

14 Un cœur intelligent cherche la science; mais la bouche des fous se repaît de folie.

15 Tous les jours de l'affligé sont mauvais; mais un cœur joyeux est un festin continuel.

16 Peu, avec la crainte de l'Éternel, vaut mieux qu'un grand trésor, avec lequel il y a du trouble.

17 Mieux vaut un repas d'herbes, où il y a de l'amitié, qu'un festin de bœuf engraissé où il y a de la haine.