Spreuken 15:20

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Een wijze zoon verblijdt den vader, maar een dwaas mens is tot schande zijner moeder.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Een wijze zoon verheugt zijn vader, maar een dwaas minacht zijn moeder.

Staten Vertaling
Een wijs zoon zal den vader verblijden; maar een zot mens veracht zijn moeder.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wise: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 23:15, Proverbs 23:16, Proverbs 29:3, 1 Kings 1:48, 1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 5:7, Philippians 2:22

despiseth: Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 30:17, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:3

Reciprocal: Proverbs 13:1 - wise Proverbs 17:21 - that Proverbs 17:25 - General Proverbs 19:13 - foolish Proverbs 23:24 - father Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Luke 1:14 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A wise son maketh a glad father,....

:-;

but a foolish man despiseth his mother; that bore him and brought him up, and perhaps was too indulgent to him; which aggravates his sin and her sorrow; :-; or causes her to be despised by others, as Jarchi interprets it; such a man's sin, which is great folly, and shows him to be a foolish man, is highly resented by the Lord, and will be severely punished; see Proverbs 30:17. The Targum is,

"a foolish son despises his mother;''

and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, which makes the antithesis more clear; and the Hebrew text designs one grown up to man's estate.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To “despise” a mother is to cause her the deepest grief, and is therefore not unfitly contrasted with “making a glad father.”