Proverbs 30:17 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁷ 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.

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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

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.

Proverbs 15:20

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

Proverbs 20:20

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

Proverbs 23:22

Hearken to your father who begot you, 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.

Proverbs 30:18

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

Leviticus 20:9

For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is 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. You say, ‘How have we despised thy name?’

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.

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.”