Proverbs 30:17 (BSB)

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:17

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:15-17: He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Pro 30:14), and had spoken of them last, as the worst of all the four generations there mentioned; now here he speaks of their insatiableness in doing this. The temper that puts them upon it is made up of cruelty and covetousness.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:17: The eye that mocketh at his father,.... At his advice, admonitions, and instructions; looks upon him with scorn and disdain, and treats him as a weak, silly, old man: here Agur returns to the first generation he had observed; and despiseth to obey his mother; her orders and commands: or, "the obedience of his mother" (s); her discipline and instruction, having no regard to it.
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:17: The eye--for the person, with reference to the use of the organ to express mockery and contempt, and also as that by which punishment is received. the ravens . . . eagles . . . eat--either as dying unnaturally, or being left unburied, or both.
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 30:17: The eye [that] mocketh at [its] father, and despiseth to obey [its] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. (i) Which hunt in the valley for carrion.