23:24 The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; 1
whoever fathers a wise child 2 will have joy in him.
23:25 May your father and your mother have joy;
may she who bore you rejoice. 3
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.
3 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”).