the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 23:25
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So give your father and mother joy! May she who gave you birth be happy.
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her that bore you rejoice.
Make your father and mother happy; give your mother a reason to be glad.
May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Thi fadir and thi modir haue ioye, and he that gendride thee, make ful out ioye.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her that bare thee rejoice.
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Make your parents proud, especially your mother.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
So let your father and mother be glad; let her who gave you birth rejoice.
let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
Make both of your parents happy. Give your mother that same joy.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
Let your father and mother be glad, and let her who gave birth to you be full of joy.
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
Your father and your mother shall rejoice in you; and the one who bore you shall be happy.
Let your father and mother be proud of you; give your mother that happiness.
Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.
[Do so that] thy father and mother may be glad of thee, and that she that bare thee may reioyce.
Let thy father and thy mother rejoice over thee, and let her that bore thee be glad.
Let your father and mother have joy,and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.
Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
so shal thy father be glad, and thy mother that bare the, shal reioyse.
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice.
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
Let your father and your mother be glad,And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
and she: Proverbs 17:25, 1 Chronicles 4:9, 1 Chronicles 4:10, Luke 1:31-33, Luke 1:40-47, Luke 1:58, Luke 11:27, Luke 11:28
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:1 - A wise Proverbs 23:15 - if Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Proverbs 29:3 - loveth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,.... That, is when thou art righteous and wise; see Proverbs 10:1; or "let thy father and thy mother be glad" e; do everything that may make their hearts glad, and their lives easy and comfortable in their old age; by ministering to their necessities, if in any; by treading in their steps, and following their examples; by living soberly and righteously, and behaving wisely; by not only honouring them, but by seeking the honour and glory of God; showing a regard to religion, and supporting it to the utmost of their power; these are things which make the hearts of pious parents glad;
and she that bare thee shall rejoice; thy mother particularly, who bore and brought thee forth with so much pain, and brought thee up with so much care and trouble, will think it an to much recompence for all, if thou art truly wise and religious. Some accommodate this to God our heavenly Father, and to the church, the Jerusalem above, the mother of us all.
e ישמח "guadeat", V. L. "laetetur", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "fac ut laetetur", Mercerus, Gejerus; "exhilaretur", Schultens.
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.
