23:15 My child, 1 if your heart is wise,
then my heart also will be glad;
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
1 tn Heb “my son,” although the context does not limit this exhortation to male children.
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.
3 tn The term “child” is supplied for the masculine singular adjective here.
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”).