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Posted on 04/30/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by OneVike
Those that despise to obey them, that think it a thing below them to be dutiful to their parents, especially to the mother, they scorn to be controlled by her; and thus she that bore them in sorrow in greater sorrow bears their manners.I share that commentary on verse 17, because so many children today despise their parents. In many cases it may seem well deserved, but God says honor you mother and father, not to curse them. Even if it seems those parents do not deserve it, you should not lower yourself to their level. Eventually the blame must stop for the cycle to end.
What their doom will be. Those that dishonor their parents shall be set up as monuments of God’s vengeance; they shall be hanged in chains, as it were, for the birds of prey to pick out their eyes, those eyes with which they looked so scornfully on their good parents. The dead bodies of malefactors were not to hang all night, but before night the ravens would have picked out their eyes. If men do not punish undutiful children, God will, and will load those with the greatest infamy that conduct themselves haughtily towards their parents. Many who have come to an ignominious end have owned that the wicked courses that brought them to it began in a contempt of their parents’ authority.
A friend taught a class on Proverbs in prison. His major observation was that none of the incarcerated had heard any of the sayings in proverbs. It was all new to them.
I grew up in a world with variations of proverbs. But tune your ears, when was the last time you heard one in public, OR said one in public.
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