Proverbs 16:31 “Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righte…”

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

American Standard Version

The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

Geneva Bible 1599

Age is a crowne of glory, when it is founde in the way of righteousnes.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

A crown of beauty [are] grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

Bible in Basic English

The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

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Cross references

“hoary”

Proverbs 20:29 Leviticus 19:32 Job 32:6 Job 32:7

Proverbs 20:29 · BSB

The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

Leviticus 19:32 · BSB

You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

Job 32:6 · BSB

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

Job 32:7 · BSB

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

“if”

1 Samuel 12:2–5 Genesis 47:7–10 Ecclesiastes 4:13 Luke 1:6 Philemon 1:9 1 Chronicles 29:10–25

1 Samuel 12:2–5 · BSB

Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

Genesis 47:7–10 · BSB

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 · BSB

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

Luke 1:6 · BSB

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

Philemon 1:9 · BSB

I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.

1 Chronicles 29:10–25 · BSB

Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

Also

Proverbs 3:1–2 Proverbs 17:6

Proverbs 3:1–2 · BSB

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Proverbs 17:6 · BSB

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

30He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

32He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

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