the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Proverbs 23:16
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My innermost being will celebratewhen your lips say what is right.
Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
And my innermost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.
Yes, my heart will rejoice When your lips speak right things.
Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.
And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
And my inmost being will exultWhen your lips speak upright things.
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
and if you are truthful, I will really be glad.
my inmost being rejoices when your lips say what is right.
and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
It makes me feel good inside when you say the right things.
Yea, my heart shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
I will be proud when I hear you speaking words of wisdom.
And my insides will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
And my reins shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.
yee my reynes shalbe very glad, yf yi lyppes speake the thinge yt is right.
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
Yea, my reins will rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Yea my reines shall reioyce, when thy lippes speake right things.
Yea my raynes shalbe very glad, if thy lippes speake the thing that is right.
and thy lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
and my reynes schulen make ful out ioye, whanne thi lippis speken riytful thing.
Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak right things.
Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things.
Everything in me will celebrate when you speak what is right.
My heart will be full of joy when your lips speak what is right.
My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.
And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy: Proverbs 8:6, Ephesians 4:29, Ephesians 5:4, Colossians 4:4, James 3:2
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 29:9 - David Proverbs 10:1 - A wise Proverbs 15:20 - wise Proverbs 16:24 - Pleasant Proverbs 17:21 - hath Proverbs 23:24 - father Proverbs 27:11 - be wise
Cross-References
"Sir, the land is worth ten pounds of silver, but I won't argue with you over the price. Take the land, and bury your dead wife."
While we were going home, we stopped for the night and when we opened our sacks each of us found all his money in his sack. We brought that money with us to give it back to you.
Every person who is counted must pay one-fifth of an ounce of silver. (This is set by using one-half of the Holy Place measure, which weighs two-fifths of an ounce.) This amount is a gift to the Lord .
Wisdom cannot be bought with gold, and its cost cannot be weighed in silver.
"I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, weighing out seven ounces of silver for him.
The shekel will be worth twenty gerahs, and a mina will be worth sixty shekels.
Then I said, "If you want to pay me, pay me. If not, then don't." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.
"Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.
Do not owe people anything, except always owe love to each other, because the person who loves others has obeyed all the law.
Brothers and sisters, think about the things that are good and worthy of praise. Think about the things that are true and honorable and right and pure and beautiful and respected.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, my reins shall rejoice,.... Which is only another phrase expressive of the same thing, and confirming the greatness of joy on the above occasion; not only his heart rejoiced, which was affectionately concerned for his son, near which he lay, the desires of which were frequently drawn out for his good, but his reins also; the seat of the afflictions rejoiced at it; showing how vehement, sincere, and hearty the joy was;
when thy lips speak right things; as they will, when the heart is wise; things agreeably to right reason, to the Scriptures of truth, the oracles of God; to the law and to the testimony; to the Gospel of Christ, and the doctrines of it; and such things as are savoury, pleasant, and profitable, and minister grace to the hearers. The Targum is,
"when my lips speak right things;''
see Proverbs 8:6.
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.
