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If you have sons while you are a young man,
    they are like a soldier's arrows.
If a man has many sons,
    God has blessed him.[a]
When his enemies speak against him at the city gate,
    they will not win.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 127:5 A soldier with many arrows can fight well. A man with many children is in a good place. They help him to win against his enemies.
  2. 127:5 The city gate was the place where people met to decide their quarrels.