Proverbs 16:31
Age is a crowne of worshyp, yf it be founde in the way of ryghteousnesse.
Bible (Bishops')
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 shutteth his eyes to deuise mischiefe: and moueth his lippes to bryng euyll to passe.
Cross References
Proverbs 17:6Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.
Ecclesiastes 4:13A poore chylde beyng wise, is better then an olde kyng that doteth, and can not beware in tyme to come.
Luke 1:6They were both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fault with them.
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 →