23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth,
And (A)a word spoken [a]in due season, how good it is!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:23 Lit. in its time

23 A person finds joy in giving an apt reply(A)
    and how good is a timely word!(B)

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23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

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“The(A) Lord God has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is (B)weary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned.

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The Sovereign Lord(A) has given me a well-instructed tongue,(B)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.(C)
He wakens me morning by morning,(D)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.(E)

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The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

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