Parallel Verses

King James 2000

He that mistreats his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.

New American Standard Bible

He who assaults his father and drives his mother away
Is a shameful and disgraceful son.

King James Version

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Holman Bible

The one who assaults his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.

International Standard Version

Whoever mistreats his father and alienates his mother is a son who brings both shame and disrespect.

A Conservative Version

He who does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

American Standard Version

He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Amplified


He who assaults his father and chases away his mother
Is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

Bible in Basic English

He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

Darby Translation

He that ruineth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Julia Smith Translation

He oppressing the father and putting the mother to flight, is a son causing shame and causing disgrace.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, [is] a child who causes shame and brings reproach.

Modern King James verseion

He who assaults his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that hurteth his father or shutteth out his mother, is a shameful and an unworthy son.

NET Bible

The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

New Heart English Bible

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

The Emphasized Bible

He that ruineth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son causing shame and reproach.

Webster

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

World English Bible

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁדד 
Shadad 
Usage: 57

בּרח 
Barach 
Usage: 64

אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

בּוּשׁ 
Buwsh 
Usage: 119

Verse Info

Context Readings

Foolproof Instructions

25 Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge. 26 He that mistreats his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach. 27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to stray from the words of knowledge.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:5

He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Proverbs 23:22-25

Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 28:7

Whosoever keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shames his father.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy is the man that is reverent always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into calamity.

Proverbs 28:24

Whosoever robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 30:11

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.

Luke 15:12-16

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this your son came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

King James Version Public Domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

American Standard Version Public Domain

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain