Proverbs 30:17
The 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.
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In Context
18Three things are difficult for me, and about a fourth, I am nearly ignorant:
Cross References
Genesis 9:21And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
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:
Deuteronomy 28:26And may your carcass be food for all the flying things of the air and the wild beasts of the land, and may there be no one to drive them away.
2 Samuel 18:9Then it happened that Absalom, riding on a mule, met the servants of David. And when the mule had entered under a thick and large oak tree, his head became trapped in the oak. And while he was suspended between heaven and earth, the mule on which he had been sitting continued on.
2 Samuel 21:10Then Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, taking a haircloth, spread it under herself on a rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped from heaven upon them. And she did not permit the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:16-18
Four Things Unsearchable. 15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor ( v. 14 ), and had… Read the whole commentary →