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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 19:26

Children who bring disgrace rob their father and chase their mother away.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Home;   Parental;   Sorrow;   Ungrateful Children;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Reproach;   Shame;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Reproach;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Woman;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The one who plunders his father and evicts his motheris a disgraceful and shameful son.
Hebrew Names Version
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
King James Version
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
English Standard Version
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.
New American Standard Bible
He who assaults his father and drives his mother away Is a shameful and disgraceful son.
New Century Version
A child who robs his father and sends away his mother brings shame and disgrace on himself.
Amplified Bible
He who assaults his father and chases away his mother Is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
World English Bible
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that destroyeth his father, or chaseth away his mother, is a lewde and shamefull childe.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who assaults his father and causes his mother to fleeIs a son who brings shame and humiliation.
Berean Standard Bible
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
Complete Jewish Bible
One who mistreats his father and evicts his mother is a son who brings them shame and disgrace.
Darby Translation
He that ruineth [his] father and chaseth away [his] mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who would steal from their father and chase away their mother are disgusting, shameful people.
George Lamsa Translation
He who plunders his father and grieves his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Good News Translation
Only a shameful, disgraceful person would mistreat his father or turn his mother away from his home.
Lexham English Bible
He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, is a child who causes shame and brings reproach.
Literal Translation
He who assaults his father and chases his mother away, he is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He yt hurteth his father or shuteth out his mother, is a shamefull & an vnworthy sonne.
American Standard Version
He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Bible in Basic English
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.
King James Version (1611)
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a sonne that causeth shame, and bringeth reproch.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that hurteth his father, or shutteth out his mother, is a shamefull and an vnworthy sonne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that dishonours his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.
English Revised Version
He that spoileth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that turmentith the fadir, and fleeth fro the modir, schal be ful of yuel fame, and schal be cursid.
Update Bible Version
He that does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, Is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
New English Translation
The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
New King James Version
He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
New Living Translation
Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.
New Life Bible
He who hurts his father and puts his mother out of the house is a son who causes much shame.
New Revised Standard
Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that ruineth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son causing shame and reproach.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.
Revised Standard Version
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
THE MESSAGE
Kids who lash out against their parents are an embarrassment and disgrace.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who assaults his father and drives his mother away Is a shameful and disgraceful son.

Contextual Overview

26 Children who bring disgrace rob their father and chase their mother away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wasteth: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 17:25, Proverbs 23:22-25, Proverbs 28:14, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Luke 15:12-16, Luke 15:30

a son: Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 17:2, Proverbs 28:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:28 - reach Deuteronomy 21:20 - he is a glutton Proverbs 14:35 - him Proverbs 28:24 - robbeth

Cross-References

Genesis 19:17
When they were outside, one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't even look back. And don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, where you will be safe."
Genesis 19:31
One day his older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry.
Genesis 19:32
Let's get our father drunk! Then we can sleep with him and have children."
Numbers 16:38
because they were used for offering incense to me. Have them hammered into a thin layer of bronze as a covering for the altar. Those men died because of their sin, and now their fire pans will become a warning for the rest of the community."
Proverbs 14:14
You harvest what you plant, whether good or bad.
Hebrews 10:38
The people God accepts will live because of their faith. But he isn't pleased with anyone who turns back."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that wasteth [his] father,.... His father's substance, which he gave him first as his portion, and afterwards by paying his debts, and getting him out of prison and out of broils, and that wastes his spirits and his health, and brings his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;

[and] chaseth away [his] mother: alienates her affections from him, who once had too great a fondness for him; causes her to quit her house, not being able to bear the sight of him and of his actions:

[is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach; causes shame to his parents, as well as to himself; and a reproach upon them, as well as on his own character. It may be read thus,

"a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother y.''

y So Gejerus, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, is one that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:26. He that wasteth his father — Destroys his substance by riotous or extravagant living, so as to embitter his latter end by poverty and affliction; and adds to this wickedness the expulsion of his aged widowed mother from the paternal house; is a son of shame - a most shameful man; and a son of reproach - one whose conduct cannot be sufficiently execrated. Who tormentith the fader, and fleeth the modir, schenful schal ben, and unblisful. - Old MS. Bible. The common reading of the Vulgate is, et fugat matrem, and expels his mother; but the Old Bible was taken from a copy that had fugit matrem, shuns his mother, flees away from her, leaves her to affliction and penury. It is prostitution of the term to call such, man.


 
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