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They live to see their children grow up and settle down,
    and they enjoy their grandchildren.

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Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged;
    parents[a] are the pride of their children.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:6 Hebrew fathers.

14 By the power of your hand, O Lord,
    destroy those who look to this world for their reward.
But satisfy the hunger of your treasured ones.
    May their children have plenty,
    leaving an inheritance for their descendants.

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28 A flood will sweep away their house.
    God’s anger will descend on them in torrents.

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10 Their children will beg from the poor,
    for they must give back their stolen riches.

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19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren,
    nor any survivor in the place where they lived.

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I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment,
    but then comes sudden disaster.
Their children are abandoned far from help;
    they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.

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