Proverbs 16:31
Age is a crowne of glory, when it is founde in the way of righteousnes.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 shutteth his eyes to deuise wickednes: he moueth his lippes, and bringeth euil to passe.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32Thou shalt rise vp before the horehead, and honour the person of the old man, and dread thy God: I am the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:10Therefore Dauid blessed the Lord before all the Congregation, and Dauid sayde, Blessed be thou, O Lord God, of Israel our father, for euer and euer.
Proverbs 17:6Childres children are the crowne of the elders: and the glory of ye children are their fathers.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poore and wise childe, then an olde and foolish King, which will no more be admonished.
Luke 1:6Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.
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 →