Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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In Context
18“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
Cross References
Genesis 9:21He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
Deuteronomy 28:26Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
2 Samuel 18:9Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
2 Samuel 21:10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
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 →