Proverbs 23:22
Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
In Context
23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :
Proverbs 15:20A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
Mark 7:10For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.
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 →