Proverbs 15:23

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

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WEBBE

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

BSB

A man takes joy in a fitting reply — and how good is a timely word!

KJV

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

ASV

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!

BBE

A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

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שִׂמְחָה sim·chah joy H8057 לָאִישׁ la·'ish [belongs] to (the) person H376 בְּמַעֲנֵה־ be·ma·'a·neh- in [the] answer of H4617 פִיו fiv mouth his H6310 וְדָבָר ve·da·var and [is] a word H1697 בְּעִתּוֹ be·'i·to at appropriate time its H6256 מַה־ mah- how H4100 טּוֹב tov good H2896

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.