Proverbs 30:17 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁷ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young vultures will devour it. [Lev. 20:9; Prov. 20:20; 23:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ An eye that mocks a father and rejects obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the river valley peck it out, and the eagle’s young eat it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

Proverbs 30:17 Tagairtí Cros

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.

Proverbs 15:20

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

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.

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.

Proverbs 30:18

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

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]

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.”

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.

1 Samuel 17:44

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