Proverbs 23:25
New International Version
May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!

New Living Translation
So give your father and mother joy! May she who gave you birth be happy.

English Standard Version
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Berean Standard Bible
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

King James Bible
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

New King James Version
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice.

New American Standard Bible
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

NASB 1995
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

NASB 1977
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

Amplified Bible
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who gave birth to you rejoice [in your wise and godly choices].

Christian Standard Bible
Let your father and mother have joy, and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let your father and mother have joy, and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.

American Standard Version
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And your father and your mother will rejoice in you and she that bore you will rejoice.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let thy father and thy mother rejoice over thee, and let her that bore thee be glad.

Contemporary English Version
Make your parents proud, especially your mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.

English Revised Version
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her that bare thee rejoice.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
May your father and your mother be glad. May she who gave birth to you rejoice.

Good News Translation
Let your father and mother be proud of you; give your mother that happiness.

International Standard Version
Let your father and mother rejoice; make the one who gave birth to you happy.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bore thee rejoice.

Literal Standard Version
Your father and your mother rejoice, | Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.

Majority Standard Bible
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

New American Bible
Let your father and mother rejoice; let her who bore you exult.

NET Bible
May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

New Heart English Bible
Let your father and your mother be glad. Let her who bore you rejoice.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

World English Bible
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Young's Literal Translation
Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

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Context
True Riches
24The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him. 25May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice! 26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.…

Cross References
Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.

Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.


Treasury of Scripture

Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.

and she

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

1 Chronicles 4:9,10
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow…

Luke 1:31-33,40-47,58
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS…

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Verse 25. - Shall be glad; or, let them be glad; gaudeat, Vulgate; εὐφραινέσθω, Septuagint. She that bare thee. As in ver. 24 the father's joy was expressly mentioned, so here prominence is given to that of the mother. In the former case it is "he that begetteth;" here, "she that beareth."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
May your father
אָבִ֥יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

and mother
וְאִמֶּ֑ךָ (wə·’im·me·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

be glad,
יִֽשְׂמַח־ (yiś·maḥ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8055: To brighten up, be, blithe, gleesome

and may she who gave you birth
יֽוֹלַדְתֶּֽךָ׃ (yō·w·laḏ·te·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

rejoice!
וְ֝תָגֵ֗ל (wə·ṯā·ḡêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1523: To spin round, rejoice, fear


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