Proverbs 23:22 (BSB)

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:19-28: Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: "Here, my son, and be wise, Pro 23:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:22: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:22: Hearken--that is, obey (Pro 1:8; Eph 6:1). despise . . . old--Adults revere the parents whom, as children, they once obeyed.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:22-25: Pro 23:22-25 The parainesis begins anew, and the division is open to question. Pro 23:22-24 can of themselves be independent distichs; but this is not the case with Pro 23:25, which, in the resumption of the address and in expression, leans back on Pro 23:22.