Proverbs 19:25-27
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 Beat a scoffer and the naive learn a lesson;
rebuke the intelligent and they gain knowledge.(A)
26 Whoever mistreats a father or drives away a mother,
is a shameless and disgraceful child.[a](B)
27 My son, stop attending to correction;
start straying from words of knowledge.[b]
Footnotes
- 19:26 Children who disgrace the family equivalently plunder their father’s wealth and expel their mother from the home.
- 19:27 The meaning was disputed even in antiquity. The interpretation that most respects the syntax is to take it as ironic advice as in 22:6: to stop (listening) is to go (wandering).
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