Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
19Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
21Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Kings 1:48Then the king said, May the God of Israel be praised, who has given one of my seed to be king in my place this day and has let my eyes see it.
1 Kings 5:7And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
Proverbs 29:3A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
Philippians 2:22But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of 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 →