15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
16 My 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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References and Original Words
Verse 15
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Original words
My son בְּ֭נִי H1121 Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular if אִם־ H518 Conjunction your heart לִבֶּ֑ךָ H3820 Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular is wise חָכַ֣ם H2449 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular my own heart לִבִּ֣י H3820 Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular will indeed גַם־ H1571 Conjunction . . . אָֽנִי׃ H589 Pronoun - first person common singular rejoice יִשְׂמַ֖ח H8055 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Verse 16
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My inmost being כִלְיוֹתָ֑י H3629 Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular will rejoice וְתַעְלֹ֥זְנָה H5937 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural when your lips שְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יךָ H8193 Noun - feminine dual construct | second person masculine singular speak בְּדַבֵּ֥ר H1696 Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct what is right מֵישָׁרִֽים׃ H4339 Noun - masculine plural
BSB notes
- Hebrew My kidneys