Proverbs 30:17

The Message

An eye that disdains a father and despises a mother— that eye will be plucked out by wild vultures and consumed by young eagles.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah daughter of Aiah took rough burlap and spread it out for herself on a rock from the beginning of the harvest until the heavy rains started. She kept the birds away from the bodies by day and the wild animals by night.

Proverbs 15:20

Intelligent children make their parents proud; lazy students embarrass their parents.

Proverbs 20:20

Anyone who curses father and mother extinguishes light and exists benighted.

Proverbs 23:22

Listen with respect to the father who raised you, and when your mother grows old, don’t neglect her. Buy truth—don’t sell it for love or money; buy wisdom, buy education, buy insight. Parents rejoice when their children turn out well; wise children become proud parents. So make your father happy! Make your mother proud!

Proverbs 30:11

Don’t curse your father or fail to bless your mother.

Proverbs 30:18

Three things amaze me, no, four things I’ll never understand— how an eagle flies so high in the sky, how a snake glides over a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, why adolescents act the way they do. * * *

Leviticus 20:9

“Any and every person who curses his father or mother must be put to death. By cursing his father or mother he is responsible for his own death.

Malachi 1:6

“Isn’t it true that a son honors his father and a worker his master? So if I’m your Father, where’s the honor? If I’m your Master, where’s the respect?” God-of-the-Angel-Armies is calling you on the carpet: “You priests despise me! “You say, ‘Not so! How do we despise you?’ “By your shoddy, sloppy, defiling worship. “You ask, ‘What do you mean, “defiling”? What’s defiling about it?’

1 Samuel 17:44

“Come on,” said the Philistine. “I’ll make roadkill of you for the buzzards. I’ll turn you into a tasty morsel for the field mice.”