Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
7 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “joy” →
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it !
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
