Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 30:17

17 The eye that mocketh at his father , and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out , and the young eagle shall eat it.

He that scorneth or derideth his Parents, though it be but with a look or gesture, and much more when he breaks out into opprobrious words and Actions.

He shall die an unnatural, and untimely, and ignominious death, and after death shall lie unburied, and so be exposed to the Birds, and Beasts of Prey, and amongst others, to the Crows, or Ravens, who use to feed upon dead carkasses and particularly to pick out their eyes, as is noted by all sorts of Writers; of which see my Latin Synopsis. He saith, the ravens of the valley, either because they most delight in valleys, or with a particular respect unto that valley near Ierusalem, which was called the valley of dead bodies, Jer. 31. 40. from the Carkasses cast out there, to which therefore the Ravens resorted in great numbers according to their manner: Or, as others render, the ravens of the brooks, because they are of an hot and dry temper, and therefore delight in places adjacent to the brooks of Water.

Which also preyeth upon dead Carkasses, and especially upon their eyes, as the Ravens do, the reason being the same in both, whether it be the softness of that part which makes it more easie to them to take, or from the pleasant taste of it.

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