Proverbs 16:31
The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 29:10And David blessed Jehovah in the sight of all the congregation; and David said, Blessed be thou, Jehovah, the God of our father Israel, for ever and ever.
Job 41:32He maketh the path to shine after him: one would think the deep to be hoary.
Proverbs 17:6Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.
Luke 1:6And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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 →