26He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26)Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father , wastes his estate which he should have to suppo…
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