Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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. THE BOOK OF PSALMS The psalms are called by the Hebrews TEHILLIM, that is, Hymns of Praise. The author, of a great part of them at least, was king David: but many are of opinion that some of them were made by Asaph, and others whose names are prefixed in the titles.
Psalms 128:3The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened 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 →