44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
44 " 'Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."
44 "Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
44 "'Everyone who likes to use proverbs will use this one: "Like mother, like daughter."
44 "Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: 'Like mother, like daughter!'
44 Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, 'Like mother, like daughter.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:44
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58
(Read Ezekiel 16:1-58)
In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.