Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
In Context
30Whoever, with astonished eyes, thinks up depravities, biting his lips, accomplishes evil.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:10And he blessed the Lord before the entire multitude, and he said: “Blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father from eternity to eternity.
Proverbs 17:6Sons of sons are the crown of old age. And the glory of sons is their fathers.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a boy, poor and wise, than a king, old and foolish, who does not know to look ahead for the sake of posterity.
Luke 1:6Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:30-31
29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and not only by fraud and insinuation, as subtle serpents: They are violent men, that do all by rapine and oppression, that… Read the whole commentary →