Proverbs 23:15 (BSB)

My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:12-16: Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge, by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:15: My son, if thine heart be wise,.... To that which is good; so as from it to understand in a spiritual and experimental manner things divine and heavenly; he may be said to have a wise heart who knows in some measure what his heart is, the wickedness, the original depravity and corruption, of it; the plague of his own heart; the weakness and inability...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:15: The pleasure afforded the teacher by the pupil's progress is a motive to diligence.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:15-16: Pro 23:15-16 The following proverb passes from the educator to the pupil: 15 My son, if thine heart becometh wise, My heart also in return will rejoice; 16 And my reins will exult If thy lips speak right things. Wisdom is inborn in no one. A true Arab.