Proverbs 16:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 16:31 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 20:29
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Leviticus 19:32
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Proverbs 3:1-2
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: …
1 Samuel 12:2-5
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. …
Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Topics

Age, Old Aged Infirmity Longevity Old Age Veneration

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 31)

Note, 1. It ought to be the great care of old people to be found in the way of righteousness, the way of religion and serious godliness. Both God and man will look for them in that way; it will be expected that those that are old should be good, that the multitude of their years should teach them the best wisdom; let them therefore be found in that way. Death will come; the Judge is coming; the Lo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. (Compare Pr 20:29). if--or, which may be supplied properly, or without it the sense is as in Pr 3:16; 4:10, that piety is blessed with long life.