Proverbs 15:20
A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.
Catholic Public Domain 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 slothful is like a hedge of thorns. The way of the just is without offense.
21Folly is gladness to the foolish. And the prudent man sets his own steps in order.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
1 Kings 1:48And he said: ‘Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who today has bestowed someone to sit upon my throne, while my eyes may see it.’”
1 Kings 5:7Therefore, when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, “Blessed be the Lord God this day, who gave to David a very wise son over this numerous people!”
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your soul will become wise, my heart will be glad with you.
Proverbs 29:3The man who loves wisdom rejoices his father. But whoever nurtures promiscuous women will lose his substance.
Philippians 2:22So know this evidence of him: that like a son with a father, so has he served with me in the Gospel.
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 →