32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-37)Here is, I. A law for the preserving of the honour of the time and place appropriated to the service of God, Lev. 19:30. This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions of the heathen and from all immoralities in conversation. 1. Sabbaths must be religiously observed, and not those times mentioned (Lev. 19:26) to which the heathen had a superstitious regard. 2. The…
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