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Proverbs 30:17 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 30 · verse 17
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.Proverbs 30:17 · King James Version
Proverbs 30:17 in context
15The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
18There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- despisethbûwzto disrespectH936 →
- mockethlâʻagto derideH3932 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- ravensʻôrêba ravenH6158 →
- valleynachala stream, especially a winter torrentH5158 →
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He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Pro 30:14), and had spoken of them last, as the worst of all the four generations there mentioned; now here he speaks of their insatiableness in doing this. The temper that puts them upon it is made up of cruelty and covetousness.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-17