the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 23:19
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Hear, my son, and be wise, And guide your heart in the way.
Listen, my child, and be wise. Keep your mind on what is right.
Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path!
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way [of the LORD].
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
Mi sone, here thou, and be thou wijs, and dresse thi soule in the weie.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
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Listen to me, my children! Be wise and have enough sense to follow the right path.Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
You, my son: listen, be wise, and set your mind on the right way.
Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
So listen, my son, and be wise. Always be careful to follow the right path.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
Heare thou, my sonne, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Listen, my son, and be wise. Lead your heart in the way.
Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Hear, my son, and be wise, and fasten my counsel in your heart.
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Listen, my child, be wise and give serious thought to the way you live.Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
My sonne geue eare and be wyse, and set straight thyne heart in the way [of the Lorde.]
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Listen, my son, and be wise;keep your mind on the right course.
Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path!
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road.
My son, hear, you, and be wise, and advance your heart in the way.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
My sonne, ue eare & be wyse, so shal thine hert prospere in the waye.
15 Oh listen, dear child—become wise; point your life in the right direction. Don't drink too much wine and get drunk; don't eat too much food and get fat. Drunks and gluttons will end up on skid row, in a stupor and dressed in rags.
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.
Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in the way.
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.
You, my son, listen and be wise,And direct your heart in the way.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
and guide: Proverbs 23:12, Proverbs 23:26, Proverbs 4:10-23
in the way: That is "in the right way.
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:20 - he is a glutton Proverbs 4:23 - Keep Proverbs 28:7 - but Isaiah 5:22 - mighty Luke 15:13 - wasted
Cross-References
By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return."
to let me buy his cave at Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I will pay the full price in the presence of witnesses, so I will have a permanent burial place for my family."
Ephron was sitting there among the others, and he answered Abraham as the others listened, speaking publicly before all the Hittite elders of the town.
When I die, please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors." So Joseph promised, "I will do as you ask."
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, "When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you."
And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.
A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn't even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.
Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.
For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear thou, my son, and be wise,.... Hear the instruction of a father, of the word of Wisdom, of the ministers of the Gospel, which is the way to be wise unto salvation; faith comes by hearing; spiritual wisdom, and an increase of it; the Spirit of God, and his gifts and graces;
and guide thine heart in the way; in the way of the Lord, in the way of wisdom and understanding, in the way of truth and faith, in the way of religious worship, in the way of the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; in all which the heart should be guided and directed, or otherwise it will be of no avail.
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.
