Proverbs 17:6
Sons of sons are the crown of old age. And the glory of sons is their fathers.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
In Context
7Well-chosen words are not fitting for the foolish, nor are lying lips fitting for a leader.
Cross References
Genesis 50:23After these things happened, he said to his brothers: “God will visit you after my death, and he will make you ascend from this land into the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
1 Kings 11:12Yet truly, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David. From the hand of your son, I will tear it away.
Job 42:16But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.
Psalms 128:3The sinners have made fabrications behind my back. They have prolonged their iniquity.
Proverbs 16:31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:6
5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. See here, 1. What a great sin those are guilty of who trample upon the poor, who ridicule their wants and the meanness of their appearance, upbraid them with their poverty, and take advantage from their weakness to be abusive and injurious to them. They reproach their Maker, put a great contempt and affront upon him, who allotted the poor to the condition they are in, owns them, and takes care of them, and… Read the whole commentary →