Proverbs 30:17

Disrespectful Children - Their Punishment

¹⁶ Sheol, and the barren womb,
Earth that is never satisfied with water,
And fire that never says, “Enough.”
¹⁷ The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.
¹⁸ There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand:

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Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

Proverbs 30:11

There is a kind of man who curses his father
And does not bless his mother.

Genesis 9:21-27

He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Leviticus 20:9

‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

1 Samuel 17:44

The Philistine also said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.”

2 Samuel 18:9-10

Now Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. For Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught fast in the oak, so he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him kept going.

2 Samuel 18:14-17

Then Joab said, “I will not waste time here with you.” So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

Proverbs 20:20

He who curses his father or his mother,
His lamp will go out in time of darkness.