Holy Scripture
Proverbs 17:6
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“We must regard the woman's crown to be her husband, and the husband's crown to be marriage; and the flowers of marriage the children of both, which the divine husbandman plucks from meadows of flesh. "Children's children are the crown of old men." And the glory of children is their fathers, it is said; and our glory i…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Children’s children are the crown of old men; And their fathers are the glory of children. a The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; But the faithless not even a farthing.
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4A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: But a righteous man attends not to false lips.
5He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; And he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: But he that has compassion shall find mercy.
— Proverbs 17:6 —
7Faithful lips will not suit a fool; Nor lying lips a just man.
8Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward: And whithersoever it may turn, it shall prosper.