Proverbs 19:26
He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.
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In Context
27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to go astray from the words of knowledge.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 17:2A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Proverbs 23:22Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 28:14Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.
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 →