New Revised Standard Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.

Contemporary English Version
Make your father truly happy by living right and showing sound judgment.

New American Bible
The father of a just person will exult greatly; whoever begets a wise son will rejoice in him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.

The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.

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Proverbs 23:15,16 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: . . .

Proverbs 10:1 Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

1 Kings 1:48 And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath given this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing it.

1 Kings 2:1-3,9 And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged his son Solomon, saying: . . .

Ecclesiastes 2:19 Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?

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Philemon 1:19 I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.

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