Proverbs 15:20
Children who are wise cause their parents to be happy; it is foolish children who despise their parents.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
21Foolish people are happy to continually act foolishly; those who have good sense do what is right.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor/Respect your fathers and your mothers, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh God, will give you.
1 Kings 1:48Then he said, ‘I praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship, because he has allowed one of my sons to become the king today, and has permitted me to see it happen.’”
1 Kings 5:7When Hiram heard the message from Solomon, he was very happy and said, “I praise Yahweh today for giving David a very wise son to rule that great nation!”
Proverbs 23:15My son/child, if you [SYN] become wise, I [SYN] will be very happy.
Proverbs 29:3Those who are eager to become wise cause their parents to be glad; those who spend their time with prostitutes will end up giving all their money to them.
Philippians 2:22But you know that Timothy has proved that he serves the Lord and others faithfully. You know that he has served the Lord closely together with me in proclaiming to people the message about Christ as though he were [SIM] my son and I were his own father.
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 →