💡WEB · Proverbs 30:17
What does Proverbs 30:17 mean?
"“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it."
— Proverbs 30:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
“The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
“So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
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