Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 6:20 - Revised Standard Version My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My son, keep thy father's commandment, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My son, keep your father's [God-given] commandment and forsake not the law of [God] your mother [taught you]. [Eph. 6:1-3.] American Standard Version (1901) My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Common English Bible My son, keep your father’s command; don’t abandon your mother’s instruction. Catholic Public Domain Version My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. |
Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,
We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,
“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 chastise him, will not give heed to them,
“ ‘Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’