Proverbs 30:17

English Standard Version 2016

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Leviticus 20:9

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Proverbs 20:20

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

2 Samuel 21:10

Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

1 Samuel 17:44

The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”

Deuteronomy 28:26

And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 30:18

Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’