Proverbs 19:26
Whoever is spoiling a father causes a mother to flee, || A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
27Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causes a father to rejoice, || And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.
Proverbs 17:2A wise servant rules over a son causing shame, || And he apportions an inheritance in the midst of brothers.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father, who begot you, || And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
Proverbs 28:14O the blessedness of a man fearing continually, || And whoever is hardening his heart falls into evil.
Proverbs 30:11A generation lightly esteems their father, || And does not bless their mother.
Luke 15:12and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:26
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge. Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear, Deut. xix. 20 . If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being… Read the whole commentary →