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Monday, November 25th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 23:24

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise child will have joy in him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Home;   Parental;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   The Topic Concordance - Happiness/joy;   Parents;   Rejoice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Joy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The father of godly children has cause for joy. What a pleasure to have children who are wise.
Update Bible Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begets a wise child will have joy of him.
New Century Version
The father of a good child is very happy; parents who have wise children are glad because of them.
New English Translation
The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.
Webster's Bible Translation
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
World English Bible
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
English Standard Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The fadir of a iust man ioieth ful out with ioie; he that gendride a wijs man, schal be glad in hym.
English Revised Version
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Berean Standard Bible
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Contemporary English Version
Make your father truly happy by living right and showing sound judgment.
American Standard Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Bible in Basic English
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
Complete Jewish Bible
A righteous person's father will be filled with joy; yes, he whose son is wise will rejoice in him.
Darby Translation
The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
Easy-to-Read Version
The father of a good person is very happy. A wise child brings him joy.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
King James Version (1611)
The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him.
New Life Bible
The father of one who is right with God will have much joy. He who has a wise son will be glad in him.
New Revised Standard
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The father of the righteous shal greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
George Lamsa Translation
The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; and he who begets a wise child shall be glad.
Good News Translation
A righteous person's parents have good reason to be happy. You can take pride in a wise child.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice in him:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
Revised Standard Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wyse chylde, shall haue ioy of hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A righteous father brings up his children well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.
Christian Standard Bible®
The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Hebrew Names Version
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
King James Version
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Lexham English Bible
The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.
Literal Translation
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise one shall even be glad in him.
Young's Literal Translation
The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(for a righteous father is maruelous glad of a wyse sonne, & delyteth in hi)
New American Standard Bible
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
New King James Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.
Legacy Standard Bible
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,And he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.

Contextual Overview

19Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way [of the LORD]. 20Do not associate with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat, 21For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And the drowsiness [of overindulgence] will clothe one with rags. 22Listen to your father, who sired you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. 23Buy truth, and do not sell it; Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. 24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise child will have joy in him.25Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who gave birth to you rejoice [in your wise and godly choices]. 26My son, give me your heart And let your eyes delight in my ways, 27For a prostitute is a deep pit, And an immoral woman is a narrow well. 28She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey], And she increases the faithless among men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

father: Proverbs 23:15, Proverbs 23:16, Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, 1 Kings 1:48, 1 Kings 2:1-3, 1 Kings 2:9, Ecclesiastes 2:19

shall have: Philemon 1:9, Philemon 1:20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 5:7 - a wise son Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Proverbs 29:3 - loveth Ezekiel 18:14 - if he Luke 1:14 - General 3 John 1:4 - have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice,.... Or "in rejoicing shall rejoice" d, in his son; not that he is rich, but righteous, truly righteous, internally and externally; having the righteousness of Christ imputed to him, and righteousness and true holiness wrought in him, and so lives soberly, righteously, and godly: this must be understood of a father who is himself righteous; for otherwise wicked men, if their sons do but thrive in the world, they are unconcerned about their character as righteous, or their state and condition God-ward;

and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him; especially if he is wise in the best things; if he is wise unto salvation; he may be wise and knowing in things natural, have a good share of wit and sense, and be wise in worldly things, which may yield a pleasure to a natural man his parent; but, if he is a good man, he will have greater joy of his son if he is wise in the first sense. The mother and grandmother of Timothy had no doubt great joy of him, who, from a child, knew the holy Scriptures; and so had the elect lady of her children, who were walking in the truth; and so has our heavenly Father of his children, who are righteous and wise through his grace.

d גול יגול "exultando exultabit", Paguinus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "gaudendo gaudebit", Cocceias.

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.


 
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