Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
- Deuteronomy 21:18–20 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”