John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father ,.... See Gill on Proverbs 10:1 ; but a foolish man despiseth his mother ; that bore him and brought him up, and perhaps was too indulgent to him; which aggravates his sin and her sorrow; See Gill on Proverbs 10:1 ; or causes her to be despised by others, as Jarchi interprets it; such a man's sin, which is great folly, and shows him to be a foolish man, is highly resented by the Lord, and will be severely punished; see Proverbs 30:17 . The Targum is,... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns ,.... Or, "strewed with thorns", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; the Targum is, "the ways of the slothful are briers and thorns.' Either really being made so by his own conduct; who, by his slothfulness, has implicated and entangled himself in such difficulties, that he cannot extricate himself; his way is not passable, at least not very easily; it is as it were hedged up with thorns; see Hosea 2:6 ; or in his own... read more