Proverbs 23:15

“My son, if thine heart be wise, etc.] 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 of it to do that which is good; the insufficiency of his own righteousness to justify him before God; the poverty of his spirit, and the folly of his mind: and who also is wise unto salvation; that knows the way of peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation by Christ; and who applies to him for the same; builds on him, the foundation; prizes…”

“The pleasure afforded the teacher by the pupil's progress is a motive to diligence.”

“Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter it. Reins - See Job 19:27 note. Proverbs 23:17 Envy sinners - Compare in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73:3; the feeling which looks half-longingly at the prosperity of evil doers. Some connect the verb “envy” with the second clause, “envy not sinners, but envy, emulate, the fear of the Lord.” Proverbs 23:18 Or, For if there is an end (hereafter), thine expectations shall not be cut off. There is an implied confidence in immortality. Proverbs 23:20 Riotous eaters of flesh - The word is the same as “glutton”…”

“23:15-16 Saying 13: A wise parent will rejoice in a wise child (see 10:1).”

“My son: Pro 1:10, Pro 2:1, Pro 4:1; Mat 9:2; Joh 21:5; Jo1 2:1 if: Pro 23:24, Pro 23:25, Pro 10:1, Pro 15:20, Pro 29:3; Th1 2:19, Th1 2:20, Th1 3:8, Th1 3:9; Jo2 1:4; Jo3 1:3, Jo3 1:4 even mine: or, even I will rejoice, Jer 32:41; Zep 3:17; Luk 15:23, Luk 15:24, Luk 15:32; Joh 15:11 Proverbs 23:16”

“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. proverb says, "The wise knows how the fool feels, for he himself was also once a fool;" (Note: The second part of the saying is, "But a fool knows not how a wise man feels, for he has never been a wise man." I heard this many years ago, from the mouth of the American missionary Schaufler, in Constantinople.) and folly is bound up in the heart of a child, according to Pro 22:15, which must be driven out by severe discipline. 15b, as many others, cf. Pro…”