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Rich experience is the crown of the aged,
    and their boast is the fear of the Lord.(A)

I can think of nine whom I would call happy,
    and a tenth my tongue proclaims:
a man who can rejoice in his children,
    who lives to see the downfall of his foes.(B)
Happy the man who lives with a sensible wife
    and who does not plow with ox and ass together,[a]
who does not slip with the tongue
    and who has not become enslaved to an inferior.(C)

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  1. 25.8 Heb Syr: Gk lacks and the one who does not plow with ox and ass together