Proverbs 30:11 (BSB)
There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 30:11
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:10-14: Here is, I. A caution not to abuse other people's servants any more than our own, nor to make mischief between them and their masters, for it is an ill office, invidious, and what will make a man odious, Pro 30:10. Consider, 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:11: There is a generation that curseth their father,.... A sort of men that neither fear God nor regard men; and are so inhuman as to be without natural affections to their parents; have no reverence of them, love to them, nor give them any honour or obedience; so far from it, that they curse their father that begot them; imprecate on him all the evils...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:11: Four kinds of hateful persons--(1) graceless children, (2) hypocrites, (3) the proud, (4) cruel oppressors (compare on Pro 30:14; Psa 14:4; Psa 52:2) --are now illustrated; (1) Pro 30:15-16, the insatiability of prodigal children and their fate; (2) Pro 30:17, hypocrisy, or the concealment of real character; (3 and 4) Pro 30:18-20, various examples of pride and oppression.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:11-14: Pro 30:11-14 There now follows a Priamel, the first line of which is, by יקלל, connected with the יקללך of the preceding distich: 11 A generation that curseth their father, And doth not bless their mother; 12 A generation pure in their own eyes, And yet not washed from their filthiness; 13 A generation - how haughty their eyes, And their eyelids lift themselves up...