Proverbi 14:13

13 Come di troppo ridere duole il cuore, Così la fine dell’allegrezza è dolore.

Proverbi 14:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful
As Belshazzar's was in the midst of his feast and jollity, when he saw the writing on the wall; so sin may stare a man in the face, and guilt load his conscience and fill him with sorrow, amidst his merriment; a man may put on a merry countenance, and feign a laugh, when his heart is very sorrowful; and oftentimes this sorrow comes by sinful laughter, by mocking at sin and jesting at religion; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness:
sometimes in this life a sinner mourns at last, and mourns for his wicked mirth, or that he has made himself so merry with religious persons and things, and oftentimes when it is too late; so the end of that mirth the fool in the Gospel promised himself was heaviness, when his soul was required of him; this was the case of the rich man who had his good things here, and his evil things hereafter.

Proverbi 14:13 In-Context

11 La casa degli empi sarà distrutta; Ma il tabernacolo degli uomini diritti fiorirà.

12 Vi è tal via che pare diritta all’uomo, Il fine della quale son le vie della morte.

13 Come di troppo ridere duole il cuore, Così la fine dell’allegrezza è dolore.

14 Chi è sviato di cuore sarà saziato delle sue vie; E più ch’esso lo sarà l’uomo da bene delle sue.

15 Lo scempio crede ogni cosa; Ma l’avveduto considera i suoi passi.