Proverbs 15:20

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Proverbs 15:20 tn Heb “son.”
2. Proverbs 15:20 tn Heb “a fool of a man,” a genitive of specification.
3. Proverbs 15:20 sn The proverb is almost the same as 10:1, except that “despises” replaces “grief.” This adds the idea of the callousness of the one who inflicts grief on his mother (D. Kidner, Proverbs [TOTC], 116).