TOPICAL PROVERBS
by Grant Hodges
Wisdom for the Children of the King
JOY
| NIV | |
| 19:10 - It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury-- how much worse for a slave to rule over princes! | |
| 21:15 - When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. | |
| 23:15 - My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad; | |
| 23:16 - my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. | |
| 23:24 - The father of a righteous man has great joy; he who has a wise son delights in him. | |
| 23:25 - May your father and mother be glad; may she who gave you birth rejoice! | |
| NASB | |
| 19:10 - Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes. | |
| 21:15 - The exercise of justice is joy for the righteous, but is terror to the workers of iniquity. | |
| 23:15 - My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad; | |
| 23:16 - And my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. | |
| 23:24 - The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, and he who sires a wise son will be glad in him. | |
| 23:25 - Let your father and your mother be glad, and let her rejoice who gave birth to you. | |
| KJV | |
| 19:10 - Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. | |
| 21:15 - It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. | |
| 23:15 - My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. | |
| 23:16 - Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. | |
| 23:24 - The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. | |
| 23:25 - Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. | |
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