Proverbs 15:20
A wyse sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolishe man dispiseth his mother.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
19The way of a slouthfull man is as an hedge of thornes: but the way of the ryghteous is playne.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:15My sonne if thy heart receaue wysdome, my heart also shall reioyce:
Proverbs 29:3Who so loueth wisdome, maketh his father a glad man: but he that kepeth companie with harlottes, spendeth away that he hath.
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 →