Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
In Context
7Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.
Cross References
Genesis 50:23After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
1 Kings 11:12Nevertheless in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Job 42:16And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days.
Psalms 128:3behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.
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 →