Proverbs 16:31

A crown of dignity is eld (age), that shall be found in the ways of rightfulness.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 that thinketh shrewd things with eyes astonied, biteth his lips, and performeth evil. (With astonished eyes, he thinketh depraved things, and biteth his lips, and performeth evil.)

32A patient man is better than a strong man; and he that is lord of his soul, is better than an overcomer of cities. (A patient person is better than a strong person; and he who is lord over himself, or over his own nature, is better than an overcomer of cities.)

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:32Rise thou before an hoar head, and honour thou the person of an eld man, and dread thou thy Lord God (or and fear thou the Lord thy God); I am the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:10and he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and said, Lord God of Israel, our father, thou art blessed from without beginning [and] into without end; (and he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and said, Blessed art thou, Lord God of our father Israel, from without beginning, and forevermore;)

Job 41:32A path shall shine after him; he shall guess the great ocean as waxing eld. (He maketh a path to shine after him; and the great ocean as if growing old, that is, white with foam.)

Proverbs 17:6The crown of eld men is the sons of sons; and the glory of sons is the fathers of them.

Ecclesiastes 4:13A poor man and wise is better than an eld king and fool (ish), that cannot before-see into time to coming. (A poor person who is wise, is better than an old king who is foolish, and who cannot foresee into the time to come, or who will not listen to good advice.)

Luke 1:6And both were just before God (or And both were good and righteous before God), going in all the commandments and justifyings of the Lord, without (com)plaint.

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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