Proverbs 16:31
The hoary head is a crown of glory, If it be found in the way of righteousness.
Noyes 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 shutteth his eyes to devise fraud, He who compresseth his lips, hath accomplished mischief!
Cross References
Job 41:32Behind him he leaveth a shining path; One would think the deep to be hoary.
Proverbs 17:6Children's children are the crown of the aged, And their fathers the glory of sons.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a child poor but wise, than a king old and foolish, who will no more be admonished.
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous in the sight of 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 →