Proverbs 23:15
New International Version
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed;

New Living Translation
My child, if your heart is wise, my own heart will rejoice!

English Standard Version
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

Berean Standard Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

King James Bible
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

New King James Version
My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice—indeed, I myself;

New American Standard Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad,

NASB 1995
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad;

NASB 1977
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad;

Legacy Standard Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad;

Amplified Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will also be glad;

Christian Standard Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will indeed rejoice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will indeed rejoice.

American Standard Version
My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will also rejoice.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Son, if thy heart be wise, thou shalt also gladden my heart;

Contemporary English Version
My children, if you show good sense, I will be happy,

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:

English Revised Version
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall be glad, even mine:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My son, if you have a wise heart, my heart will rejoice as well.

Good News Translation
My child, if you become wise, I will be very happy.

International Standard Version
My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will greatly rejoice.

JPS Tanakh 1917
My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine;

Literal Standard Version
My son, if your heart has been wise, | My heart rejoices, even mine,

Majority Standard Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

New American Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart also will rejoice;

NET Bible
My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;

New Revised Standard Version
My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

New Heart English Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

World English Bible
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Young's Literal Translation
My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

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Context
True Riches
14Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol. 15My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice. 16My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.…

Cross References
Proverbs 23:24
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.

Proverbs 29:3
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.


Treasury of Scripture

My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

my son

Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Proverbs 2:1
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

if

Proverbs 23:24,25
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him…

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

even mine

Jeremiah 32:41
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

Luke 15:23,24,32
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: …

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Verse 15. - The moralist now addresses the disciple, and so to the end of the chapter. If thine heart be wise; become wise by profiting by discipline, and having its natural folly (Proverbs 22:15) eradicated. My heart shall rejoice, even mine. The pronoun is repeated for the sake of emphasis (as in Proverbs 22:19), the speaker thus declaring his supreme interest in the moral progress of his pupil.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My son,
בְּ֭נִי (bə·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1121: A son

if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

your heart
לִבֶּ֑ךָ (lib·be·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

is wise,
חָכַ֣ם (ḥā·ḵam)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2449: To be wise

my own heart
לִבִּ֣י (lib·bî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

will indeed
גַם־ (ḡam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

rejoice.
יִשְׂמַ֖ח (yiś·maḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8055: To brighten up, be, blithe, gleesome


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