Proverbs 23:22
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English Standard Version
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

New American Standard Bible
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

King James Bible
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

International Standard Version
Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

NET Bible
Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Hear your father who begot you and do not despise the old age of your mother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to your father since you are his son, and do not despise your mother because she is old.

King James 2000 Bible
Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

American King James Version
Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

American Standard Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Darby Bible Translation
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

English Revised Version
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

World English Bible
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

Young's Literal Translation
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
Lexicon
Hearken
shama`  (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
unto thy father
'ab  (awb)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application) -- chief, (fore-)father(-less), patrimony, principal. Compare names in Abi-.
that begat
yalad  (yaw-lad')
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
thee and despise
buwz  (booz)
to disrespect -- contemn, despise, utterly.
not thy mother
'em  (ame)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively) -- dam, mother, parting.
when she is old
zaqen  (zaw-kane')
to be old -- aged man, be (wax) old (man).
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