Teks -- Proverbs 23:22 (NET)

23:22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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JFB: Pro 23:22 - Hearken

That is, obey (Pro 1:8; Eph 6:1).

JFB: Pro 23:22 - despise . . . old

Adults revere the parents whom, as children, they once obeyed.

Clarke: Pro 23:22 - Despise not thy mother when she is old

Despise not thy mother when she is old - A very necessary caution, as very old women are generally helpless, useless, and burdensome: yet these circumstances do not at all lessen the child’ s duty. And this duty is strengthened by the Divine command here given.

TSK: Pro 23:22 - Hearken // despise

Hearken : Pro 1:8, Pro 6:20; Deu 21:18-21, Deu 27:16; Mar 7:10; Eph 6:1, Eph 6:2

despise : Pro 30:11; Lev 19:3; Mat 15:4-6; Joh 19:26, Joh 19:27

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Poole: Pro 23:22 - That begat thee // When she is old

That begat thee and therefore desires and seeks thy good in all his counsels.

When she is old when the infirmity of age is added to that of her sex, which is apt to breed contempt.

Gill: Pro 23:22 - Hearken unto thy father that begat thee // and despise not thy mother when she is old

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,.... And who has a true and hearty affection for thee, and whatever he says is for thy good and welfare, which he studies and has at heart; and who therefore also has an authority over thee, and what he enjoins ought to be strictly regarded; and, having lived longer in the world, must be thought to have a larger experience and knowledge of things, and therefore should be hearkened unto;

and despise not thy mother when she is old; despise not her counsels, instructions, and advice, though she is old; and because she is so, do not reject them as old wives' fables, or as the silly talk of an old woman, as young men are too apt to do.