15:20 A wise child 1 brings joy to his father,
but a foolish person 2 despises 3 his mother.
1 tn Heb “son.”
2 tn Heb “a fool of a man,” a genitive of specification.
3 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).