Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
In Context
23Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience:
Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
Proverbs 15:20A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 30:17The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.
Mark 7:10For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.’
Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →