Proverbs 23:22
Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
In Context
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Proverbs 15:20A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoso curses father or mother, let him die the death:
Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →