Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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.
Commenting on Proverbs 23:19-28
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...
Hearken--that is, obey (Pro 1:8; Eph 6:1). despise . . . old--Adults revere the parents whom, as children, they once obeyed.