“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
Solomon addresses this to a son who may be pulling away from parental authority — the age when young men begin to feel they have outgrown the voices that shaped them. 'Who gave you life' is a reminder of weight and origin: your father did not merely advise you, he preceded you, he brought you into existence, he stood between you and the world in your most helpless years.
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