Proverbs 30:17

Easy To Read Version

Any person who makes fun of his father or refuses to obey his mother will be punished. It will be as bad for him as if his eyes were eaten by vultures and wild birds.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to the things your father tells you. Without your father, you would never have been born. And respect your mother, even when she is old.

Proverbs 30:11

Some people speak against their fathers. And they don’t show respect for their mothers.

Leviticus 20:9

“If any person curses [351] his father or mother, that person must be put to death. He cursed his father or mother, so he is responsible for his own death! [352]

Proverbs 20:20

If a person curses {\cf2\super [28]} his father or mother, then he is like a person whose light stops shinning in the darkest darkness.

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the cloth of sadness and put it on the rock. [123] That cloth stayed on the rock from the time the harvest began until the rains came. Rizpah watched the bodies day and night. She did not let the wild birds get the bodies during the day. And she did not let the wild animals get them at night.

1 Samuel 17:44

Goliath said to David, “Come here, and I’ll feed your body to the birds and wild animals!”

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your dead bodies will be food for the wild birds and animals. There will be no one to scare them away from your dead bodies.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son brings happiness to his father. But a foolish person brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 30:18

There are three things that are hard for me to understand—really four things that I don’t understand:

Malachi 1:6

The Lord All-Powerful said, “Children honor their father. Servants honor their masters. I am your Father, so why don’t you honor me? I am your Master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests don’t respect my name.”