Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 19:26
He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
26. wasteth ] Rather, violently entreateth, R.V. marg.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Or, A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, is one that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Wasteth his father, i.e. his fathers estate, by unjust or riotous courses.
Chaseth away his mother; causeth her to avoid and abhor his presence and society, and to go from the house where he is. Bringeth reproach; both to himself, and to his parents and family. But this verse may very well be rendered otherwise, the last words being made the subjects of the proposition, as is usual in Scripture;
A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, ( upon himself and his friends by wicked ways,) wasteth his fathers (estate, and health, and comfort) and chaseth or driveth away his mother. These are the effects of his wickedness.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
26. Unfilial conduct oftencondemned (Pro 17:21-25;Pro 20:20; Deu 21:18;Deu 21:21).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
With Pro 19:26 there thus begins the fourth principal part of the Solomonic collection of proverbs introduced by chap. 1-9.
He that doeth violence to his father and chaseth his mother,
Is a son that bringeth shame and disgrace.
The right name is given in the second line to him who acts as is described in the first. means properly to barricade [ obstruere ], and then in general to do violence to, here: to ruin one both as to life and property. The part., which has the force of an attributive clause, is continued in the finite: qui matrem fugat ; this is the rule of the Heb. style, which is not filome’tochos, Gesen. 134, Anm. 2. Regarding , vid., at Pro 10:5; regarding the placing together of , vid., Pro 13:5, where for , to make shame, to be scandalous, the word , which is radically different, meaning to bring into bad odour, is used. The putting to shame is in ni si (kindred with Arab. bath ) thought of as disturbatio (cf. ) (cf. at Ps. 6:11), in ( khfr ) as opertio (cf. Cicero’s Cluent. 20: infamia et dedecore opertus ), not, as I formerly thought, with Frst, as reddening, blushing ( vid., Psa 34:6). Putting to shame would in this connection be too weak a meaning for . The paedagogic stamp which Pro 19:26 impresses on this fourth principal part is made yet further distinct in the verse that now follows.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father, wastes his estate which he should have to support him in his old age, wastes his spirits, and breaks his heart, and brings his gray head with sorrow to the grave. He chases away his mother, alienates her affections from him, which cannot be done without a great deal of regret and uneasiness to her; he makes her weary of the house, with his rudeness and insolence, and glad to retire for a little quietness; and, when he has spent all, he turns her out of doors. 2. The shame of a prodigal son. It is a shame to himself that he should be so brutish and unnatural. He makes himself odious to all mankind. It is a shame to his parents and family, who are reflected upon, though, perhaps, without just cause, for teaching him no better, or being in some way wanting to him.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
Dishonor of Parents
Verse 26 declares that children who squander the family substance or expel aged parents from the family home cause shame and reproach upon the father and mother they are obligated to honor, Exo 20:12; 2Sa 15:6-14; Pro 17:2; Pro 28:24. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees who disregarded their obligation to parents, Mar 7:9-13.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
CRITICAL NOTES.
Pro. 19:27. Cease my son, &c. That causeth are not in the original and the instruction spoken of may therefore be evil or good. Two conceptions are possible:
1. The instruction is that of wisdom itself, and therefore a good wholesome discipline that leads to life; then the words can be only ironical, presenting under the appearance of a dissuasion from discipline in wisdom a very urgent counsel to hear and receive it (so Ewald, Bertheau, Elster).
2. The instruction is evil and perverted, described in clause 2 as one that causes departure from the words of wisdom. Then the admonition is seriously intended (Zckler, in Langes Commentary). On Zcklers first interpretation Dr. Aiken remarks, To call this irony seems to us a misnomer. Cease to hear instruction only to despise it. What can be more direct or literally pertinent? Delitzsch says, The proverb is a dissuasive from hypocrisy, a warning against the self-deception of which Jas. 1:22-24 speaks, against heightening ones own condemnation, which is the case of that servant who knows his lords will and does it not (Luk. 12:47.)
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pro. 19:26-28
POSSIBILITIES OF HUMAN DEPRAVITY
I. The tenderest admonitions and the most solemn warnings sometimes fail to influence for good. Sometimes the most loving parental care seems utterly wasted upon an ungrateful child, and the more constant and tender the words of admonition the farther does he depart from the way in which he ought to go. There is many a man so in love with sin that he may be said to devour iniquity (Pro. 19:28); and when this fatal appetite has taken possession of the soul all appeals to his better nature, and even to his own self-love, are vain.
II. When men are so hardened there is no depth of iniquity to which they may not sink. He who scoffs at all threats of retribution, both in this life and in that which is to come, has broken through all barriers of restraint, and will be capable of outraging all the tender ties of human relationship, even to the extent of bringing his parents to disgrace and shame. The most hardened sinners in the universe of God are not found in heathen lands, or among the ignorant at home, but they are those who, having heard instruction, have erred from the words of knowledge. Each day that they resist the good influence brought to bear upon them they increase their moral insensibility, and their final condemnation (Pro. 19:29). Hence the admonition of Pro. 19:27. (See Critical Notes.)
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
Pro. 19:26. This were an admirable text for young men entering upon life and still at the expense of their parents. It is a great enormity either to waste the property of their father while he is alive, or after they have succeeded to expel the widowed mother from the premises.Chalmers.
Pro. 19:27. It is so proper and natural for a son to hear instruction, that the hearing instruction maketh to be a son. But if thou hear instruction, hear it notnot to be the better for it. Instruction speaketh to keep thee from erring; do not thou hear it to err: instruction putteth into thee the words of knowledge; do not thou put them out by erring from them, by not following them. Cease thus to hear, but hear still. For by hearing at length thine error may be corrected; whereas, if thou hear not, thou dost not only err, but deprivest thyself of the means that reduce thee from erring.Jermin.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
26. Wasteth his father Despoils him of his property, so as to break up his father’s house, and make a fugitive of his mother. To good parents such disgraceful conduct in a son is as great a calamity as can well befall them.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 26. He that wasteth his father,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 19:26 He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Ver. 26. He that wasteth his father. ] That spoileth, pilfereth, pillageth, preyeth upon his father; not so much as saying with that scapethrift in the gospel, “Give me the portion that falls to my share.” Luk 15:12 Idleness and incorrigibleness lead to this wickedness, as may appear by the context.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wasteth = preyeth upon.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 19:26
Pro 19:26
“He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.”
It is sad indeed that there should ever be such a son; but in our society today, there are many such sons, large numbers of whom have even murdered their parents. The text here offers no explanation of how such things come about; but a large number of such reprobate children reflect the failure of their parents to discipline them. Parents who rear an undisciplined child rear an animal, not a normal human being, and are kindling the fires of their own private hell.
Pro 19:26. The language suggests that the son is a grown son, not a child. It is speaking of gross mistreatment of aged parents. While our present society has many instances of this in comparison to Bible days, this verse indicates that there were some bad offspring in Bible days. Remember that parents are to be honored, not thus dishonored. Such conduct causes shame to his suffering parents and reproach against his own name in the community. Pro 17:2 also speaks of a son that causeth shame.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
wasteth: Pro 10:1, Pro 17:25, Pro 23:22-25, Pro 28:14, Pro 30:11, Pro 30:17, Deu 21:18-21, Luk 15:12-16, Luk 15:30
a son: Pro 10:5, Pro 17:2, Pro 28:7
Reciprocal: Exo 26:28 – reach Deu 21:20 – he is a glutton Pro 14:35 – him Pro 28:24 – robbeth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 19:26. He that wasteth his father That is, his fathers estate, by unjust or riotous courses; and chaseth away his mother Causes her to avoid and abhor his presence and society, and to go from the house where he is; is a son that causeth shame Both to himself, and to his parents and family. But this verse ought rather to be rendered, A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach, wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother; that is, as some interpret it, he gives them as much concern as if he were to waste his fathers substance, and turn his mother out of doors.