Isaiah 45:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

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    9Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

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    13The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

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    20But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

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    15Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

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    44See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

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    6Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.

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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

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