Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
In Context
19The way of the sluggard is as an hedge of thorns: but the path of the upright is made an highway.
21Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom: but a man of understanding maketh straight his going.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
1 Kings 1:48And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
1 Kings 5:7And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall be glad, even mine:
Proverbs 29:3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.
Philippians 2:22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of 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 →