THEOSISProverbs 30:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
עַ֤יִן ׀ תִּֽלְעַ֣ג לְאָב֮ וְתָב֢וּז לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם יִקְּר֥וּהָ עֹרְבֵי־נַ֑חַל וְֽיֹאכְל֥וּהָ בְנֵי־נָֽשֶׁר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 21:18If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
- Deut 21:21The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.
- Prov 23:22Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- 2 Sam 18:14And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,
- 2 Sam 18:17And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings.
- Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
- Lev 20:9He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.
- Gen 9:21And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.