Pro 14:13 | NETfull | STEP | Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Proverbs 14:13

13 Even in laughter the heart may ache, ^{▼▼ 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.}
and the end ^{▼▼ Heb “and its end, joy, is grief.” The suffix may be regarded as an Aramaism, a proleptic suffix referring to “joy.”} of joy may be ^{▼▼ The phrase “may be” is not in the Hebrew but is supplied from the parallelism, which features an imperfect of possibility.} grief.