Proverbs 30:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 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 who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them, 19 Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say to 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. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.
  • Deut 28:26 : 26 And your carcass shall be food unto all fowl of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall frighten them away.
  • 1 Sam 17:44 : 44 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field.
  • 2 Sam 18:9-9 : 9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head got caught in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
  • 2 Sam 18:14-17 : 14 Then Joab said, I cannot linger thus with you. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the midst of the oak. 15 And ten young men who carried Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him. 16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel: for Joab restrained the people. 17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and piled a very large heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled each to his tent.
  • 2 Sam 21:10 : 10 And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
  • Gen 9:21-27 : 21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and he uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, went backward, and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 So Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brothers. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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    11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Prov 19:26
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    26He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Deut 21:18-19
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    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

    19Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

  • Prov 17:5-6
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    5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

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  • Prov 15:20
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  • Prov 28:24
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    24Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression, is a companion of a destroyer.

  • Prov 20:20
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    20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Prov 30:18
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    18There are three things which are too wonderful for me, indeed four which I do not know:

  • Job 38:41
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    41Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?

  • Deut 32:11
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    11As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:

  • Deut 27:16
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    16Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Exod 21:17
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    17And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 30:16
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    16The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.

  • Prov 29:15
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    15The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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  • Lev 11:13-14
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  • Deut 22:6
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    15And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.

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  • Prov 15:5
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  • Deut 14:12
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  • Job 39:16
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    16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

  • Deut 28:54
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  • Job 28:7
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    13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up.

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    29In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

  • Deut 14:17
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  • Job 17:2
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  • Ezek 16:44
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  • Prov 27:11
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    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.