Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Noyes Bible
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 thorns; But the way of the righteous is a highway.
21Folly is joy to him who lacketh wisdom; But the man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart shall rejoice, even mine;
Proverbs 29:3He who loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he who is a companion of harlots destroyeth his substance.
Philippians 2:22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son serves a father, he served with me for the gospel.
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 →