Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Holman Bible
and don’t despise your mother when
International Standard Version
Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.
American Standard Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Amplified
Listen to your father, who sired you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
Julia Smith Translation
Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.
King James 2000
Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Modern King James verseion
Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy 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 Heart English Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
The Emphasized Bible
Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
Themes
Children » Dishonouring parents » Filial obedience encouraged
Children » What children should do
Contempt » Forbidden towards » Parents
Despisement » Who not to despise
Obedience » Filial » Filial obedience encouraged
Old age » Disrespect for pleasure-seeking » To be honoured
Parents » Honoring your parents
Parents » Examples of fathers' love » Obedience to
Parents » Duty to » Filial obedience encouraged
Social duties » Parental parental duties » Reverence for aged, general references to
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Ephesians 6:1-2
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.
John 19:26-27
Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.