Proverbs 15:20

A ben chacham maketh glad an av, 1 but a kesil adam despiseth immo. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

In Context

19The derech (road) of the atzel (sluggard, lazy one) is a thorny hedge, 1 but the orach yesharim (way of the upright) is a highway. 1

21Folly is simchah to him that is destitute of lev, + 15:21 of discernment 1 but an ish tevunah walketh uprightly. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honor thy av and thy em; that thy yamim may be long upon ha'adamah which Hashem Eloheicha giveth thee.

1 Kings 1:48Also so said HaMelech, Baruch Hashem Elohei Yisroel, Who hath given one to sit on my kisse this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

1 Kings 5:7And these Nitzavim + 5:7 al kol Yisroel, see 4:7-19 provided for HaMelech Sh'lomo, and for all that came near unto Shulchan HaMelech Sh'lomo, every ish in his chodesh; they lacked nothing.

Proverbs 23:15Beni (my son), if thine lev be chacham, 1 my own lev shall have simchah. 1

Proverbs 29:3He who loveth chochmah rejoiceth aviv, 1 but he that keepeth company with zonot squanders his hon (substance, wealth). 1

Philippians 2:22But of the proven mamashus (real worth) of Timotiyos you have da'as, because as a ben with his abba, Timotiyos served with me in the Besuras HaGeulah.

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 →

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