Proverbs 30:17

The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

18Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:

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Cross References

Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.

Deuteronomy 21:18And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not hearken to them;

Deuteronomy 28:26And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

2 Samuel 18:9And Absalom went to meet the servants of David: and Absalom was mounted on his mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head was entangled in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth; and the mule passed on from under him.

2 Samuel 21:10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

Proverbs 23:22Hearken, my son, to thy father which begot thee, 1 And despise not thy mother because she is grown old. 1

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 →

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