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Proverbs 19:26

He that turmentith the fadir, and fleeth fro the modir, schal be ful of yuel fame, and schal be cursid.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Home;   Parental;   Sorrow;   Ungrateful Children;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Reproach;   Shame;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Reproach;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Woman;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The one who plunders his father and evicts his motheris a disgraceful and shameful son.
Hebrew Names Version
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
King James Version
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
English Standard Version
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.
New American Standard Bible
He who assaults his father and drives his mother away Is a shameful and disgraceful son.
New Century Version
A child who robs his father and sends away his mother brings shame and disgrace on himself.
Amplified Bible
He who assaults his father and chases away his mother Is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
World English Bible
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that destroyeth his father, or chaseth away his mother, is a lewde and shamefull childe.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who assaults his father and causes his mother to fleeIs a son who brings shame and humiliation.
Berean Standard Bible
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
Contemporary English Version
Children who bring disgrace rob their father and chase their mother away.
Complete Jewish Bible
One who mistreats his father and evicts his mother is a son who brings them shame and disgrace.
Darby Translation
He that ruineth [his] father and chaseth away [his] mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who would steal from their father and chase away their mother are disgusting, shameful people.
George Lamsa Translation
He who plunders his father and grieves his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Good News Translation
Only a shameful, disgraceful person would mistreat his father or turn his mother away from his home.
Lexham English Bible
He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, is a child who causes shame and brings reproach.
Literal Translation
He who assaults his father and chases his mother away, he is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He yt hurteth his father or shuteth out his mother, is a shamefull & an vnworthy sonne.
American Standard Version
He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Bible in Basic English
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.
King James Version (1611)
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a sonne that causeth shame, and bringeth reproch.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that hurteth his father, or shutteth out his mother, is a shamefull and an vnworthy sonne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that dishonours his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.
English Revised Version
He that spoileth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Update Bible Version
He that does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, Is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
New English Translation
The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
New King James Version
He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
New Living Translation
Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.
New Life Bible
He who hurts his father and puts his mother out of the house is a son who causes much shame.
New Revised Standard
Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that ruineth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son causing shame and reproach.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.
Revised Standard Version
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
THE MESSAGE
Kids who lash out against their parents are an embarrassment and disgrace.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who assaults his father and drives his mother away Is a shameful and disgraceful son.

Contextual Overview

26 He that turmentith the fadir, and fleeth fro the modir, schal be ful of yuel fame, and schal be cursid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wasteth: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 17:25, Proverbs 23:22-25, Proverbs 28:14, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Luke 15:12-16, Luke 15:30

a son: Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 17:2, Proverbs 28:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:28 - reach Deuteronomy 21:20 - he is a glutton Proverbs 14:35 - him Proverbs 28:24 - robbeth

Cross-References

Genesis 19:17
And thei ledden out hym, and settiden with out the citee. There thei spaken to him, and seiden, Saue thou thi lijf; nyle thou biholde bihynde thi bac, nether stond thou in al the cuntre aboute, but make thee saaf in the hil; lest also thou perische togidere.
Genesis 19:31
And the more douytre seide to the lasse, Oure fadre is eld, and no man is left in erthe, that may entre to vs, bi the custom of al erthe;
Genesis 19:32
come thou, make we him drunkun of wyn, and slepe we with him, that we moun kepe seed of oure fadir.
Numbers 16:38
and that he bringe forth tho in to platis, and naile to the auter, for encense is offrid in tho to the Lord, and tho ben halewid, that the sonis of Israel se tho for a signe and memorial.
Proverbs 14:14
A fool schal be fillid with hise weies; and a good man schal be aboue hym.
Hebrews 10:38
For my iust man lyueth of feith; that if he withdrawith hym silf, he schal not plese to my soule.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that wasteth [his] father,.... His father's substance, which he gave him first as his portion, and afterwards by paying his debts, and getting him out of prison and out of broils, and that wastes his spirits and his health, and brings his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;

[and] chaseth away [his] mother: alienates her affections from him, who once had too great a fondness for him; causes her to quit her house, not being able to bear the sight of him and of his actions:

[is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach; causes shame to his parents, as well as to himself; and a reproach upon them, as well as on his own character. It may be read thus,

"a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother y.''

y So Gejerus, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, is one that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:26. He that wasteth his father — Destroys his substance by riotous or extravagant living, so as to embitter his latter end by poverty and affliction; and adds to this wickedness the expulsion of his aged widowed mother from the paternal house; is a son of shame - a most shameful man; and a son of reproach - one whose conduct cannot be sufficiently execrated. Who tormentith the fader, and fleeth the modir, schenful schal ben, and unblisful. - Old MS. Bible. The common reading of the Vulgate is, et fugat matrem, and expels his mother; but the Old Bible was taken from a copy that had fugit matrem, shuns his mother, flees away from her, leaves her to affliction and penury. It is prostitution of the term to call such, man.


 
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