Proverbs 16:31
A crown of adorning, is a hoary head, in the way of righteousness, it should be found.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
In Context
30Closing his eyes, to devise perverse things, biting his lips, he hath plotted mischief.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32Before a hoary head, shalt thou rise up, And shalt honour the presence of an elder,—So shalt thou stand in awe of thy God—I, am Yahweh.
1 Chronicles 29:10Therefore did David bless Yahweh in the eyes of all the convocation,—and David said, Blessed art thou, O Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, from age even unto age.
Job 41:32After him, he lighteth up a path, one might think the resounding deep to be hoary!
Proverbs 17:6The crown of old men, consists of children’s children, and the adornment of children, is their fathers.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better a boy poor and wise,—than a king, old and stupid, who knoweth not how to take warning any longer.
Luke 1:6Now they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and righteous appointments 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 →