Proverbs 23:16
New International Version
my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

New Living Translation
Everything in me will celebrate when you speak what is right.

English Standard Version
My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.

Berean Standard Bible
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

King James Bible
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

New King James Version
Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things.

New American Standard Bible
And my innermost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.

NASB 1995
And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.

NASB 1977
And my inmost being will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.

Legacy Standard Bible
And my inmost being will exult When your lips speak upright things.

Amplified Bible
Yes, my heart will rejoice When your lips speak right things.

Christian Standard Bible
My innermost being will celebrate when your lips say what is right.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My innermost being will cheer when your lips say what is right.

American Standard Version
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And my kidneys will be glad whenever your lips speak uprightness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and thy lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.

Contemporary English Version
and if you are truthful, I will really be glad.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.

English Revised Version
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My heart rejoices when you speak what is right.

Good News Translation
I will be proud when I hear you speaking words of wisdom.

International Standard Version
My innermost being will be glad when your lips speak what is right.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Yea, my reins will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

Literal Standard Version
And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.

Majority Standard Bible
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

New American Bible
And my inmost being will exult, when your lips speak what is right.

NET Bible
my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

New Revised Standard Version
My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

New Heart English Bible
yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

World English Bible
Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Young's Literal Translation
And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

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Context
True Riches
15My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice. 16My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. 17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.…

Cross References
Proverbs 8:6
Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.

Proverbs 23:17
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

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Proverbs 8:6
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians 5:4
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

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(16) My reins shall rejoice.--These being represented in Hebrew poetry as the seat of the deepest affections, answering to "heart" in Proverbs 23:15. (Comp. Psalm 7:9; Jeremiah 12:2; Revelation 2:23.)

Verse 16. - My reins shall rejoice. The "reins" (kelayoth), kidneys, are regarded as the seat of feeling and sensation (Job 19:27). or of the inner nature generally (Psalm 16:7; Revelation 2:22). I shall rejoice in my very soul when thy lips speak right things; i.e. when thy heart is so replete with wisdom, thy mind so well instructed as to utter naught but what is true and sensible (Proverbs 8:6). The composition of these two verses is noteworthy, 15a being parallel to 16b, and. 15b to 16a. Septuagint, "And thy lips shall linger in words (ἐνδιατρίψει λόγοις) with my lips, if they be right," which seems to mean, "If thy lips utter what is right, they will gather wisdom from my words and impart it to others."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My inmost being
כִלְיוֹתָ֑י (ḵil·yō·w·ṯāy)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3629: A kidney, the mind

will rejoice
וְתַעְלֹ֥זְנָה (wə·ṯa‘·lō·zə·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 5937: To jump for, joy, exult

when your lips
שְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יךָ (p̄ā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - fdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

speak
בְּדַבֵּ֥ר (bə·ḏab·bêr)
Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

what is right.
מֵישָׁרִֽים׃ (mê·šā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4339: Evenness, prosperity, concord, straightness, rectitude


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