Ben Sira 25:5

5 How attractive is wisdom in the aged, and understanding and counsel in the venerable!

Ben Sira 25:5 In-Context

3 If you gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?

4 How attractive is sound judgment in the gray-haired, and for the aged to possess good counsel!

5 How attractive is wisdom in the aged, and understanding and counsel in the venerable!

6 Rich experience is the crown of the aged, and their boast is the fear of the Lord.

7 I can think of nine whom I would call blessed, and a tenth my tongue proclaims: a man who can rejoice in his children; a man who lives to see the downfall of his foes.