the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 23:15
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My child, if your heart is wise, my own heart will rejoice!
My son, if your heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
My child, if you are wise, then I will be happy.
My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
My son, if your heart is wise, Then my heart will be glad, even mine:
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Mi sone, if thi soule is wijs, myn herte schal haue ioye with thee;
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall be glad, even mine:
My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
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My children, if you show good sense, I will be happy,My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
My son, if your heart is wise, then my own heart too is glad;
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
My son, it makes me happy when you make a wise decision.
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine;
My sonne, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall reioyce, euen mine.
My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will be glad also.
My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
My son, if your heart be wise, my heart also will rejoice.
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My child, if you become wise, I will be very happy.My son! if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
My sonne if thy heart receaue wysdome, my heart also shall reioyce:
Son, if thy heart be wise, thou shalt also gladden my heart;
My son, if your heart is wise,my heart will indeed rejoice.
My son, if your heart is wise, Then my heart will be glad, even mine:
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad—even me!
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
My sonne, yf yi herte receaue wy?dome, my herte also shal reioyce:
13 Dear child, if you become wise, I'll be one happy parent. My heart will dance and sing to the tuneful truth you'll speak.
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad,
My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice--indeed, I myself;
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad;
My son, if your heart is wise,My own heart also will be glad;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
My son: Proverbs 1:10, Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 4:1, Matthew 9:2, John 21:5, 1 John 2:1
if: Proverbs 23:24, Proverbs 23:25, Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 29:3, 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:20, 1 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 John 1:4, 3 John 1:3, 3 John 1:4
even mine: or, even I will rejoice, Jeremiah 32:41, Zephaniah 3:17, Luke 15:23, Luke 15:24, Luke 15:32, John 15:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 48:2 - strengthened 1 Chronicles 29:9 - David Proverbs 16:21 - wise Proverbs 17:21 - hath Proverbs 23:26 - My son Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Luke 1:14 - General Acts 11:23 - purpose
Cross-References
"This is what everyone who is counted shall give [as he joins those already counted]: a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel (the shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel as a contribution to the LORD.
"The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give this contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.
"The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels [added together, a total of sixty] shall be your maneh (mina).
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, if thine heart be wise,.... To that which is good; so as from it to understand in a spiritual and experimental manner things divine and heavenly; he may be said to have a wise heart who knows in some measure what his heart is, the wickedness, the original depravity and corruption, of it; the plague of his own heart; the weakness and inability of it to do that which is good; the insufficiency of his own righteousness to justify him before God; the poverty of his spirit, and the folly of his mind: and who also is wise unto salvation; that knows the way of peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation by Christ; and who applies to him for the same; builds on him, the foundation; prizes and values him; rejoices in him, and gives him the glory of his salvation; receives his doctrines, and obeys his commands; takes up and makes a profession of him on right principles, and walks wisely, becoming his character and profession;
my heart shall rejoice, even mine; it shall certainly and greatly rejoice; these words are spoken either by Solomon, who had a wise heart himself, and that either to his son, for whom he desired the same, nothing being more rejoicing to pious parents than to see their children becomes wise, especially in spiritual things; or else to those that attended on him for instruction, who was a preacher in Jerusalem; and what is the joy and crown of rejoicing of ministers but their converts, and to see them walking in the truth? 1 Thessalonians 2:19 3 John 1:4; or these words are spoken by Wisdom, that is, by Christ, to his children; who rejoices when he has found them, or when they are converted, and become wise in a spiritual sense, and walk worthy, whereby Wisdom is justified of her children, Luke 15:5; yea, there is joy in heaven, joy among the angels there, and even in the father of Christ, and of his people, Luke 15:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
Proverbs 23:16
The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter it.
Reins - See Job 19:27 note.
Proverbs 23:17
Envy sinners - Compare in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73:3; the feeling which looks half-longingly at the prosperity of evil doers. Some connect the verb “envy” with the second clause, “envy not sinners, but envy, emulate, the fear of the Lord.”
Proverbs 23:18
Or, For if there is an end (hereafter), thine expectations shall not be cut off. There is an implied confidence in immortality.
Proverbs 23:20
Riotous eaters of flesh - The word is the same as “glutton” in Proverbs 23:21 and Deuteronomy 21:20.
Proverbs 23:21
The three forms of evil that destroy reputation and tempt to waste are brought together.
Drowsiness - Specially the drunken sleep, heavy and confused.
Proverbs 23:26
Observe - Another reading gives, “let thine eyes delight in my ways.”
Proverbs 23:28
As for a prey - Better as in the margin.
The transgressors - Better, the treacherous,” those that attack men treacherously.
Proverbs 23:29
Woe ... sorrow - The words in the original are interjections, probably expressing distress. The sharp touch of the satirist reproduces the actual inarticulate utterances of drunkenness.
Proverbs 23:30
Mixed wine - Wine flavored with aromatic spices, that increase its stimulating properties Isaiah 5:22. There is a touch of sarcasm in “go to seek.” The word, elsewhere used of diligent search after knowledge Proverbs 25:2; Job 11:7; Psalms 139:1, is used here of the investigations of connoisseurs in wine meeting to test its qualities.
Proverbs 23:31
His color - literally, “its eye,” the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles on which the wine drinker looks with complacency.
It moveth itself aright - The Hebrew word describes the pellucid stream flowing pleasantly from the wineskin or jug into the goblet or the throat (compare Song of Solomon 7:9), rather than a sparkling wine.
Proverbs 23:32
Adder - Said to be the Cerastes, or horned snake.
Proverbs 23:34
The passage is interesting, as showing the increased familiarity of Israelites with the experiences of sea life (compare Psalms 104:25-26; Psalms 107:23-30).
In the midst of the sea - i. e., When the ship is in the trough of the sea and the man is on the deck. The second clause varies the form of danger, the man is in the “cradle” at the top of the mast, and sleeps there, regardless of the danger.
Proverbs 23:35
The picture ends with the words of the drunkard on waking from his sleep. Unconscious of the excesses of the night, his first thought is to return to his old habit.
When shall I awake ... - Better, when I shall awake I will seek it yet again.
