Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father, who begot you, || And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
In Context
21For the drunkard and glutton become poor, || And drowsiness clothes with rags.
23Buy truth, and do not sell, || Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18When a man has a son apostatizing and being rebellious—he is not listening to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him, and he does not listen to them—
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother,
Proverbs 15:20A wise son makes a father glad. And a foolish man is despising his mother.
Proverbs 30:17An eye that mocks at a father, || And despises to obey a mother, || Ravens of the valley dig it out, || And young eagles eat it.
Mark 7:10for Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death;
Ephesians 6:1The children: obey your parents in the LORD, for this is right;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →