3 If you gathered nothing in your youth, how could you find anything in your old age? (WEB) 4 How beautiful a thing is judgment in the gray-haired, and for elders to know good counsel! (WEB) 5 How beautiful is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men who are in honor! (WEB)
Sirach 25:3–5
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Wisdom of Solomon 4:8–10
8 For honorable old age is not that which stands in length of time, nor is its measure given by number of years, (WEB) 9 but understanding is gray hair to men, and an unspotted life is ripe old age. (WEB) 10 Being found well-pleasing to God, someone was loved. While living among… (WEB)
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Proverbs 16:30–32
30 He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil. 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness. 32 He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one…
Sirach 6:17–19
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Job 32:8–10
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Sirach 26:16–18
16 As the sun when it arises in the highest places of the Lord, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-organized home. (WEB) 17 As the lamp that shines upon the holy lampstand, so is the beauty of the face on a well-proportioned body. (WEB) 18 As the golden pillars are upon a… (WEB)
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