Proverbs 30:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷The 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.

Proverbs 30:17 —

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Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: …
Proverbs 23:22
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Leviticus 20:9
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
2 Samuel 18:14-17
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-17)

He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Prov. 30:14), and had spoken of them last, as the worst of all the four generations there mentioned; now here he speaks of their insatiableness in doing this. The temper that puts them upon it is made up of cruelty and covetousness. Now those are two daughters of the horse-leech, its genuine offspring, that still cry, “ Give, give, give more bl…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. The eye--for the person, with reference to the use of the organ to express mockery and contempt, and also as that by which punishment is received. the ravens ... eagles ... eat--either as dying unnaturally, or being left unburied, or both.