Proverbs 23:22-25

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.

23:25 May your father and your mother have joy;

may she who bore you rejoice. ⁴ 

[23:23]  ¹ tn Heb “buy” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NLT); CEV “Invest in truth.”

[23:24]  ² 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.

[23:24]  ³ tn The term “child” is supplied for the masculine singular adjective here.

[23:25]  ⁴ tn The form תָגֵל (tagel) is clearly a short form and therefore a jussive (“may she…rejoice”); if this second verb is a jussive, then the parallel יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) should be a jussive also (“may your father and your mother have joy”).