Proverbs 30:17
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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the valley Or, brook. It is implied that his corpse will lie unburied and exposed.
Maurer and others quote here, in illustration of the fact that birds of prey attack principally the eyes, Catullus…
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