Psa 127:4
As arrows {are} in the hand of a mighty man; so {are} children of the youth.
King James Version
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Children's children {are} the crown of old men; and the glory of children {are} their fathers.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband {also}, and he praiseth her.
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows {shall be} as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. {expert...: or, destroyer}
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. {Sharp...: or, It is as the sharp arrows of the mighty man, with coals of juniper}
That our sons {may be} as plants grown up in their youth; {that} our daughters {may be} as corner stones, polished {after} the similitude of a palace: {polished: Heb. cut}
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.