“A good man” leaves an inheritance of not only wealth, but also wisdom and discipline to his children’s children. I think the sad reality is that a man will sacrifice his family for the sake of gaining wealth or ease. Then when he is old, his heirs are entitled and lazy and he resents them because he fails to see it as the result of his own neglect. This is why a good man will be revered for generations, while the hope of the wicked will perish with him.