Proverbs 16:31
Grey hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
In Context
30One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32“‘You shall rise up before the grey head and honour the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
1 Chronicles 29:10Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
Job 41:32He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
Proverbs 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances 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 →