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.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 23:15-16
Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness
The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.
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Verse 15
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My sonבְּ֭נִיH1121Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularifאִם־H518Conjunctionyour heartלִבֶּ֑ךָH3820Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularis wiseחָכַ֣םH2449Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularmy own heartלִבִּ֣יH3820Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularwill indeedגַם־H1571Conjunction. . .אָֽנִי׃H589Pronoun - first person common singularrejoiceיִשְׂמַ֖חH8055Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Verse 16
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My inmost beingכִלְיוֹתָ֑יH3629Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singularwill rejoiceוְתַעְלֹ֥זְנָהH5937Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine pluralwhen your lipsשְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יךָH8193Noun - feminine dual construct | second person masculine singularspeakבְּדַבֵּ֥רH1696Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive constructwhat is rightמֵישָׁרִֽים׃H4339Noun - masculine plural
BSB notes
- Hebrew My kidneys