Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is like a glorious crown [MET] that is given to people who have always behaved righteously.
Translation for Translators
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 19:32‘Stand up when old people enter the room, and show that you respect them, and also revere me, your God; that is what I, Yahweh, am commanding.
1 Chronicles 29:10Then, while all the people there were listening, David prayed, saying, “We praise you, Yahweh, the God whom our ancestor Jacob worshiped. We will praise you forever!
Job 41:32As they go through the water, the ◄wakes/trails in the water behind them► glisten. People who see it would think that the foam in those wakes had become white hair.
Proverbs 17:6Old people are usually proud of [MET] their grandchildren, just like children are usually proud of their parents.
Ecclesiastes 4:13A young man who is poor but wise is a better person than a foolish old king who refuses to pay attention when people try to give him good advice.
Luke 1:6God considered that both of them were righteous, because they constantly completely obeyed everything that God had commanded.
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 →