Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of + 16:31 Gr. boasting. honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 19:32You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.
1 Chronicles 29:10And king David blessed the Lord before the congregation, saying, Blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father, from everlasting and to everlasting.
Proverbs 17:6Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who knows not how to take heed any longer.
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 →