Proverbs 30:17

Modern English Version

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of the harvest until the rains poured on them from heaven. She did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

Proverbs 15:20

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

Proverbs 20:20

He who vilifies his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:18

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

Leviticus 20:9

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood guilt shall be upon him.

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?”

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your carcass will be meat for all the fowls of the air and beasts of the earth, and no man will frighten them away.

1 Samuel 17:44

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