Proverbs 16:31

The silvery hair is an ateret tiferet; 1 it is found in the derech tzedakah. 1

Orthodox Jewish 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 winking his eynayim to plot perverse things, 1 compressing his sfatayim (lips), 1 bringeth ra'ah to pass. 1

32He that is slow to anger 1 is better than the gibbor; 1 and he that ruleth his ruach 1 than he that captures a city. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the old, and honor the face of the zaken, and fear Eloheicha: I am Hashem.

1 Chronicles 29:10Wherefore Dovid blessed Hashem before the eyes of kol HaKahal; and Dovid said, Baruch atah Adonoi Elohei Yisroel Avinu meOlam v'ad olam.

Proverbs 17:6Bnei banim are the ateret of zekenim; 1 and the tiferet of banim are their avot. 1

Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and a wise yeled than an old and foolish melech, who will no more be admonished.

Luke 1:6And they were both tzaddikim before Hashem, walking a derech tamim in all the mitzvos and chukkim of the Torah of Adoneinu. + 1:6 Gn 6:9; Dt 5:30; 1Kgs 9:4

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 →

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