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26 Whoever mistreats a father or drives away a mother,
    is a shameless and disgraceful child.[a](A)

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  1. 19:26 Children who disgrace the family equivalently plunder their father’s wealth and expel their mother from the home.

11 [a]There are some who curse their fathers,
    and do not bless their mothers.(A)

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  1. 30:11–14 Perverted people are here classified as unfilial (v. 11), self-righteous (v. 12), proud (v. 13) and rapacious (v. 14).

14 There are some—their teeth are swords,
    their teeth are knives,
Devouring the needy from the earth,
    and the poor from the human race.

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17 The eye that mocks a father,
    or scorns the homage due a mother,
Will be plucked out by brook ravens;
    devoured by a brood of vultures.

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