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