NET Bible
"The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it."
— Proverbs 30:17, NET Bible
“The 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.”
“The 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. ”
“"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.”
“The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.”
“The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.”
“The 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.”
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
The leech has two daughters:“Give! Give!” There are three things that will never be satisfied, four that have never said,“Enough”–
the grave, the barren womb; earth has not been satisfied with water; and fire has never said,“Enough!”
The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:
the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”