Proverbs 19:26
Anyone who mistreats/abuses his father or forces his mother to leave the home is a child who is acting shamefully and disgracefully.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
27My son, if you stop learning things, you will soon forget what you already know.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1These are more proverbs/wise sayings from Solomon: If children are wise, they cause their parents to be happy; but if children are foolish, they cause their parents to be very sad.
Proverbs 17:2A slave who acts wisely will some day be the boss of his master’s disgraceful son and when his master dies, the slave will receive part of his master’s possessions.
Proverbs 23:22Pay attention to what your father tells you, and ◄do not neglect/take care of► [LIT] your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 28:14God is pleased with those who always revere him, but those who are stubborn [IDM] will experience disasters.
Proverbs 30:11I will list four kinds of evil things that people do: Some people curse their fathers and do not ask God to bless their mothers.
Luke 15:12One day the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, I do not want to wait until you(sg) die. Give me now the share of your property that belongs to me!’ So the man divided his property between his two sons.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:26
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge. Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear, Deut. xix. 20 . If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being… Read the whole commentary →