Proverbs 30:11
Good News Translation
There are people who curse their fathers and do not show their appreciation for their mothers.

New Revised Standard Version
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Contemporary English Version
Some people curse their father and even their mother;

New American Bible
There are some who curse their fathers, and do not bless their mothers.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

a generation

Proverbs 30:12-14 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness. . . .

Matthew 3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

that curseth

Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

Proverbs 20:20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Leviticus 20:9 He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Deuteronomy 21:20,21 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: . . .

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Matthew 15:4-6 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. . . .

Mark 7:10-13 For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. . . .

doth

1 Timothy 5:4,8 But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God. . . .

Context
The Words of Agur
10Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall. 11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.12A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:17
He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Proverbs 20:20
He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Malachi 1:6
The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 30:10
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