Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
In Context
30He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth: evil to pass.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:10And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity.
Proverbs 17:6Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
Luke 1:6And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and 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 →