Proverbs 30:17
The 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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.
Cross References
Genesis 9:21And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
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:
Deuteronomy 28:26And be thy carcass meat for all the Fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.
2 Samuel 18:9And it happened that Absalom met he servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and he earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.
2 Samuel 21:10And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.
Proverbs 23:22Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy 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 →