Proverbs 23:22
New International Version
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

New Living Translation
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

English Standard Version
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Berean Standard Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

King James Bible
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

New King James Version
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

New American Standard Bible
Listen to your father, who fathered you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

NASB 1995
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

NASB 1977
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Legacy Standard Bible
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Amplified Bible
Listen to your father, who sired you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Christian Standard Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

American Standard Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Hear your father who begot you and do not despise the old age of your mother.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Hearken, my son, to thy father which begot thee, and despise not thy mother because she is grown old.

Contemporary English Version
Pay attention to your father, and don't neglect your mother when she grows old.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

English Revised Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to your father since you are his son, and do not despise your mother because she is old.

Good News Translation
Listen to your father; without him you would not exist. When your mother is old, show her your appreciation.

International Standard Version
Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Literal Standard Version
Listen to your father, who begot you, | And do not despise your mother when she has become old.

Majority Standard Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

New American Bible
Listen to your father who begot you, do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

New Revised Standard Version
Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

New Heart English Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

World English Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Young's Literal Translation
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

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Context
True Riches
21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags. 22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.…

Cross References
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Leviticus 19:32
You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 30:17
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.


Treasury of Scripture

Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

hearken

Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: …

despise

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death…

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Proverbs 23
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Verses 22-25. - An octastich, containing an earnest exhortation to the disciple. Verse 22. - That begat thee. This is a claim on the attention and obedience of the son. When she is old. When old age with its consequent infirmities comes upon thy mother, despise her not, but rather thank God for giving her long life, and profit by her love and long experience (comp. Ecclus. 3:1, etc., where the exhortation to honour parents is very full and touching).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Listen
שְׁמַ֣ע (šə·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

to your father
לְ֭אָבִיךָ (lə·’ā·ḇî·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

who
זֶ֣ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

gave you life,
יְלָדֶ֑ךָ (yə·lā·ḏe·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

and do not
וְאַל־ (wə·’al-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

despise
תָּ֝ב֗וּז (tā·ḇūz)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 936: To disrespect

your mother
אִמֶּֽךָ׃ (’im·me·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

when
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

she is old.
זָקְנָ֥ה (zā·qə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2204: To be or become old


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