Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a father glad. And a foolish man is despising his mother.
Literal Standard 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 the slothful [is] as a hedge of briers, || And the path of the upright is raised up.
21Folly is joy to one lacking heart, || And a man of intelligence directs [his] going.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
1 Kings 1:48and also thus the king has said, Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, who has given [one] sitting on my throne today, and my eyes are seeing.”
1 Kings 5:7And it comes to pass at Hiram’s hearing the words of Solomon, that he rejoices exceedingly and says, “Blessed [is] YHWH today, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.”
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your heart has been wise, || My heart rejoices, even mine,
Proverbs 29:3A man loving wisdom makes his father glad, || And a friend of harlots destroys wealth.
Philippians 2:22and you know his proof, that as a child [serves] a father, he served with me in regard to 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 →