23:22 Listen to your father who begot you,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23:23 Acquire 1 truth and do not sell it –
wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
23:24 The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; 2
whoever fathers a wise child 3 will have joy in him.
1 tn Heb “buy” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NLT); CEV “Invest in truth.”
1 tc The Qere reading has the imperfect יָגִיל (yagil) with the cognate accusative גִּיל (gil) which intensifies the meaning and the specific future of this verb.
2 tn The term “child” is supplied for the masculine singular adjective here.