Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes his father happy, but a stupid man despises his mother.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
19The way of lazy people is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the good is an open highway.
21Stupidity makes people with no sense happy, but sensible people do what is right.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Kings 1:48and said, ‘Praise the Lord, the God of Israel! Today he has provided a successor to sit on my throne, and I have been privileged to see it.’”
1 Kings 5:7When Hiram heard Solomon's message, he was very happy and said, “Praise the Lord today, for he has given David a wise son to lead this great nation!”
Proverbs 23:15My son, if you think wisely then I'll be happy;
Proverbs 29:3A man who loves wisdom makes his father happy, but one who visits prostitutes throws away his money.
Philippians 2:22But you already know what he's like—just as a child working to help his father, so he's worked with me to spread the good news.
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 →