Proverbs 15:20
A wise sonne reioyceth the father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
19The way of a slouthfull man is as an hedge of thornes: but the way of the righteous is plaine.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.
1 Kings 1:48And thus sayd the King also, Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel, who hath made one to sit on my throne this day, euen in my sight.
1 Kings 5:7And when Hiram heard the wordes of Salomon, he reioyced greatly, and sayde, Blessed be the Lord this day, which hath giuen vnto Dauid a wise sonne ouer this mightie people.
Proverbs 23:15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
Proverbs 29:3A man that loueth wisdome, reioyceth his father: but he that feedeth harlots, wasteth his substance.
Philippians 2:22But yee knowe the proofe of him, that as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me in 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 →