Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
19The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is made a highway.
21Folly is joy to him who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding makes his going straight.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
1 Kings 1:48And also thus said the king, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who has given one of my seed to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.
1 Kings 5:7And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine.
Proverbs 29:3He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.
Philippians 2:22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good-news.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:20
19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. See here, 1. Whence those difficulties arise which men pretend to meet with in the way of their duty, and to be insuperable; they arise not from any thing in the nature of the duty, but from the slothfulness of those that have really no mind to it. Those that have no heart to their work pretend that their way is hedged up with thorns, and they cannot do their work at all (as if God were a hard Master, reaping where… Read the whole commentary →