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Proverbs 20:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Whoso curseth his father or his mother,.... This is dreadful indeed! a person must be got to a great pitch of wickedness to do this; to curse his parents, one or other of them, that have been the instruments of his being, and by whom he has been brought up and put out into the world; to slight them, despise them, and mock at them, is highly base and criminal, but to curse them is shocking!

what can such expect but the curse of God upon them?

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