Proverbs 30:17
People who ridicule their fathers and despise obedience to the mother will have their eyes pecked out by wild ravens and eaten by young vultures.
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18These three things are amazingly hard for me, four things I just can't understand:
Cross References
Genesis 9:21He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
Deuteronomy 21:18If someone has an obstinate and rebellious son who doesn't obey his parents and doesn't obey them even when he's punished,
Deuteronomy 28:26Your dead bodies will be food for birds of prey and wild animals, and there won't be anyone to scare them away.
2 Samuel 18:9Absalom ran into some of David's men while he was riding on his mule. As the mule went under the twisted branches of a large oak tree, Absalom's hair got caught in the tree. The mule he was riding kept going, leaving him hanging between earth and sky.
2 Samuel 21:10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the time the rains came and poured down on the bodies, she kept the birds away from them during the day and the wild animals at night.
Proverbs 23:22Pay attention to your father, and don't disregard your mother when she's 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 →