Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
Majority Standard Bible
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 who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
1 Chronicles 29:10Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Job 41:32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
Proverbs 17:6Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
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 →