Proverbs 19 · Verse 26

Proverbs 19:26

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 19:26, King James Version

Proverbs 19:26 in other translations

BSBHe who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
WEBHe who robs his father and drives away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
ASVHe that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
YLTWhoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
DARBYHe that ruineth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
BBEHe who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
WebsterHe that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

What does Proverbs 19:26 mean?

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

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 He that wasteth his father - Destroys his substance by riotous or extravagant living, so as to embitter his latter end by poverty and affliction; and adds to this wickedness the expulsion of his aged widowed mother from the paternal house; is a son of shame - a most shameful man; and a son of reproach - one whose conduct cannot be sufficiently execrated. Who tormentith the fader, and fleeth the modir, schenful schal ben, and unblisful - Old MS. Bible. The common reading of the Vulgate is, et fugat matrem, and expels his mother; but the Old Bible was taken from a copy that had fugit matrem, shuns his mother, flees away from her, leaves her to affliction and penury. It is prostitution of the term to call such, man.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
The young man who wastes his father's substance, or makes his aged mother destitute, is hateful, and will come to disgrace.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 19:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מְֽשַׁדֶּד\־me.sha.ded-[one who] assaultsH7703
אָ֭ב'ava fatherH1
יַבְרִ֣יחַyav.Ri.achhe drives awayH1272
אֵ֑ם'Ema motherH517
בֵּ֝֗ןBen[is] a sonH1121
מֵבִ֥ישׁme.Vish[who] brings shameH954
וּמַחְפִּֽיר\׃u.mach.Pirand [who] causes shameH2659

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 19:26

  • Proverbs 10:5

    He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

  • Proverbs 28:24

    Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

  • Proverbs 30:17

    The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Proverbs 17:2

    A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

  • Proverbs 17:25

    A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

  • Proverbs 28:14

    Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

  • Proverbs 10:1

    The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

  • Deuteronomy 21:18-21

    If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

  • Proverbs 23:22-25

    Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  • Proverbs 30:11

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

  • Proverbs 28:7

    Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

  • Luke 15:12-16

    And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
wasteth.
10:1; 17:25; 23:22-25; 28:14; 30:11,17; De 21:18-21; Lu 15:12-16,30
a son.
10:5; 17:2; 28:7

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Context

  • Proverbs 19:25

    Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

  • Proverbs 19:26

    He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

  • Proverbs 19:27

    Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

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Proverbs 19:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El que roba á su padre y ahuyenta á su madre, hijo es avergonzador y deshonrador.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Celui qui ruine son père et chasse sa mère, est un fils qui fait honte et apporte l’opprobre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wer den Vater zu Grunde richtet, die Mutter verjagt, ist ein Sohn, der Schande und Schmach bringt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Qui affligit patrem, et fugat matrem, ignominiosus est et infelix.