Proverbs 30:17

God's Word

The eye that makes fun of a father and hates to obey a mother will be plucked out by ravens in the valley and eaten by young vultures.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah (Aiah’s daughter) took sackcloth and stretched it out on the rock for herself from the beginning of the harvest until the sky rained on the dead bodies. She wouldn’t let any birds land on them during the day or any wild animals come near them during the night.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes his father happy, but a foolish child despises its mother.

Proverbs 20:20

The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother will be snuffed out in total darkness.

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father since you are his son, and do not despise your mother because she is old.

Proverbs 30:11

A certain kind of person curses his father and does not bless his mother.

Proverbs 30:18

Three things are too amazing to me, even four that I cannot understand:

Leviticus 20:9

“Whoever curses his father or mother must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother and deserves to die.

Malachi 1:6

“This is what the Lord of Armies says: A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. So if I am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is my respect? You priests despise my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Deuteronomy 28:26

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

1 Samuel 17:44

“Come on,” the Philistine told David, “and I’ll give your body to the birds.”