American Standard Version
"Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old. "
— Proverbs 23:22, American Standard Version
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
“Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.”
“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
“Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
“Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.”
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.