Ecclesiastes 27:11

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Stude sapientiæ, fili mi, et lætifica cor meum,
ut possis exprobranti respondere sermonem.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Legem pone mihi, Domine, in via tua, et dirige me in semitam rectam, propter inimicos meos.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Stude sapientiae, fili mi, et laetifica cor meum, ut possim exprobranti mihi respondere sermonem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be wise: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 23:15, Proverbs 23:16, Proverbs 23:24, Proverbs 23:25, Ecclesiastes 2:18-21, Philemon 1:7, Philemon 1:19, Philemon 1:20, 2 John 1:4

that I: Psalms 119:42, Psalms 127:4, Psalms 127:5

Reciprocal: Proverbs 29:3 - loveth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,.... That is, show thyself to be a wise man by thy words and actions; endeavour to get a good share of wisdom and knowledge, and make a good use of it, and that will rejoice my heart; as nothing more gladdens the heart of a parent than the wisdom and prudent behaviour of his son; see

Proverbs 10:1;

that I may answer him that reproacheth me; with begetting a foolish son, or a wicked man; or making him such by ill examples; or through neglect of education; or by using too much severity in it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The voice of the teacher to his true disciple. He pleads with him that the uprightness of the scholar will be the truest answer to all attacks on the character or teaching of the master.