SinaiProverbs 23:22
American Standard Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Proverbs 23:22 in other translations
Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:22 in context
- 20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
- 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
- 22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
- 23Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
- 24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.