Proverbs 30:11
 Proverbs 30:11 
New International Version (©2011)
"There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers;

New Living Translation (©2007)
Some people curse their father and do not thank their mother.

English Standard Version (©2001)
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
There is a kind of man who curses his father And does not bless his mother.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Some people curse their fathers and won't bless their mothers.

NET Bible (©2006)
There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
To a generation that its fathers will revile and its mother will not bless;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A certain kind of person curses his father and does not bless his mother.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

American King James Version
There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

American Standard Version
There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Darby Bible Translation
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

English Revised Version
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Webster's Bible Translation
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

World English Bible
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

Young's Literal Translation
A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

There is a generation that curseth their father,.... A sort of men that neither fear God nor regard men; and are so inhuman as to be without natural affections to their parents; have no reverence of them, love to them, nor give them any honour or obedience; so far from it, that they curse their father that begot them; imprecate on him all the evils in life they can think of, and wish him out of the world;

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

There now follows a Priamel,

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the teacher had uttered what he most desired, so now he tells what he most abhorred; and in true-harmony with the teaching of the Ten Commandments places in the foremost rank those who rise against the Fifth.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

There is a generation - There are such persons in the world. In this and the three following verses the wise man points out four grand evils that prevailed in his time.

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Geneva Study Bible

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.


Wesley's Notes

30:11 A generation - A sort of men.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11-14. Four kinds of hateful persons-(1) graceless children, (2) hypocrites, (3) the proud, (4) cruel oppressors (compare on Pr 30:14; Ps 14:4; 52:2)-are now illustrated; (1) Pr 30:15, 16, the insatiability of prodigal children and their fate; (2) Pr 30:17, hypocrisy, or the concealment of real character; (3 and 4) Pr 30:18-20, various examples of pride and oppression.


Proverbs 30:11 Parallel Commentaries
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The Words of Agur
10Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty. 11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother. 12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. …

Exodus 21:17 "Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
Proverbs 20:20 If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
Malachi 1:6 "A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Almighty. "It is you priests who show contempt for my name. "But you ask, 'How have we shown contempt for your name?'