SEV Biblia, Chapter 30:17
El ojo que escarnece a su padre, y menosprecia la enseñanza de la madre, los cuervos lo saquen del río, y lo devoren los hijos del águila.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:17
Verse 17. The eye that mocketh at his father ] This seems to be spoken against those who curse their father, and do not bless their mother, ver. 11. The ravens of the valley ] Those which frequent the places where dead carcasses and offal are most likely to be found. The raven, the crow, the rook, the daw, the carrion crow, and the Cornish chough, appear to be all of the same genus. Some of them live on pulse and insects; others, the raven in particular, live on carrion.
The young eagles shall eat it. ] The mother eagle shall scoop out such an eye, and carry it to the nest to feed her young. Many of the disobedient to parents have come to an untimely end, and, in the field of battle, where many a profligate has fallen, and upon gibbets, have actually become the prey of ravenous birds.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father , etc.] At his advice, admonitions, and instructions; looks upon him with scorn and disdain, and treats him as a weak, silly, old man: here Agur returns to the first generation he had observed; and despiseth to obey [his] mother ; her orders and commands: or, “the obedience of his mother” f862 ; her discipline and instruction, having no regard to it. The word is rendered “gathering” in ( Genesis 49:10); and Jarchi interprets it of the gathering of wrinkles in her face: and so the Targum, Arabic, and Syriac versions render it, “the old age of his mother”; despising her as an old foolish woman; (see Proverbs 23:22); qhl , in the Ethiopic language, signifies to “grow old”, from whence the word here used, by a transposition of letters, may be derived; and Mr. Castell f863 observes, that the royal prophet, among others, seems to have taken this word from the queen of Sheba; the ravens of the valley, shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it ; it signifies, that such persons shall come to an untimely end, and an ignominious death; either be drowned in a river, when floating upon it, or cast upon the banks of it, the ravens that frequent such places, and are most cruel and voracious, should feed upon them: or they should be hanged on a tree, or be crucified f864 , where birds of prey would light upon them; and particularly pick out their eyes and eat them, as being softest and sweetest to them; therefore first aim at them, and of which birds, and especially ravens, are very fond f865 ; and is a just retaliation for their scornful and disdainful looks at their parent. This may figuratively design the black devils of hell, the posse of them in the air, who are sometimes compared to the fowls thereof; to whom such unnatural and disobedient children shall become a prey; (see Matthew 13:4,19).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-17 - Cruelty and covetousness are two daughters of the horseleech, tha still cry, "Give, give," and they are continually uneasy to themselves Four things never are satisfied, to which these devourers are compared Those are never rich that are always coveting. And many who have com to a bad end, have owned that their wicked courses began by despisin their parents' authority.
Original Hebrew
עין 5869 תלעג 3932 לאב 1 ותבוז 936 ליקהת 3349 אם 517 יקרוה 5365 ערבי 6158 נחל 5158 ויאכלוה 398 בני 1121 נשׁר׃ 5404
