Proverbs 19:26
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New International Version (©2011)
Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He who assaults his father and drives his mother away Is a shameful and disgraceful son.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The one who assaults his father and evicts his mother is a disgraceful and shameful son.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Whoever mistreats his father and alienates his mother is a son who brings both shame and disrespect.

NET Bible (©2006)
The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
He that plunders his father and grieves his mother is a disgraceful and shameful son.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A son who assaults his father [and] who drives away his mother brings shame and disgrace.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He that mistreats his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.

American King James Version
He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.

American Standard Version
He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.

Darby Bible Translation
He that ruineth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

English Revised Version
He that spoileth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

World English Bible
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:19. The spared and spoiled child is likely to become a man of great wrath. 20. Those that would be wise in their latter end, must be taught and ruled when young. 21. What should we desire, but that all our purposes may agree with God's holy will? 22. It is far better to have a heart to do good, and want ability for it, than to have ability for it, and want a heart to it. 23. Those that live in the fear of God, shall get safety, satisfaction, and true and complete happiness. 24. Indolence, when indulged, so grows upon people, that they have no heart to do the most needful things for themselves. 25. A gentle rebuke goes farthest with a man of understanding. 26. The young man who wastes his father's substance, or makes his aged mother destitute, is hateful, and will come to disgrace.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 26-ch. 22:16. - Fourth section of this collection. Verse 26. - He that wasteth his father. The verb shadad, used here and in Proverbs 24:15, may be taken in the sense of "to spoil," "to deprive of property;" but it is better to adopt a more general application, and to assign to it the meaning of "to maltreat," whether in person or property. Chaseth away his mother; by his shameless and evil life makes it impossible for her to continue under the same roof with him; or, it may be, so dissipates his parents' means that they are driven from their home. A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach (comp. Proverbs 10:5; Proverbs 13:5; Proverbs 17:2).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He that wasteth his father,.... His father's substance, which he gave him first as his portion, and afterwards by paying his debts, and getting him out of prison and out of broils, and that wastes his spirits and his health, and brings his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;

and chaseth away his mother: alienates her affections from him, who once had too great a fondness for him; causes her to quit her house, not being able to bear the sight of him and of his actions:

is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach; causes shame to his parents, as well as to himself; and a reproach upon them, as well as on his own character. It may be read thus,

"a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother (y).''

(y) So Gejerus, Schultens.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. Unfilial conduct often condemned (Pr 17:21-25; 20:20; De 21:18, 21).

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Better is the Poor Man with Integrity
…25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge. 26He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach. 27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge. …

Proverbs 19:27 Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 28:24 Whoever robs their father or mother and says, "It's not wrong," is partner to one who destroys.