New Revised Standard Version
All the days of the poor are hard, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Contemporary English Version
The poor have a hard life, but being content is as good as an endless feast.

New American Bible
All the days of the poor are evil, but a good heart is a continual feast.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.

All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.

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Genesis 37:35 And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Psalm 90:7-9 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. . . .

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Proverbs 16:22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.

Proverbs 17:22 A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

Acts 16:25 And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they that were in prison heard them.

Romans 5:2,3,11 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. . . .

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

2 Corinthians 1:5,12 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

1 Peter 1:6-8 Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: . . .

1 Peter 4:13 But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.