Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

King James 2000

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

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.

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 A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge. 26 Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion. 27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:5

Whoso is gathering in summer is a wise son, Whoso is sleeping in harvest is a son causing shame.

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

Proverbs 10:1

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

Proverbs 17:25

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Proverbs 23:22-25

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

Proverbs 28:7

Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

Proverbs 28:14

O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

Proverbs 30:11

A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

Proverbs 30:17

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

Luke 15:12-16

and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to me, and he divided to them the living.

Luke 15:30

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

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