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Text -- Proverbs 20:29 (NET)

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20:29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the splendor of old men is gray hair.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Young Men | HAIR | AGE, OLD | more
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JFB: Pro 20:29 - -- Each age has its peculiar excellence (Pro 16:31).

Each age has its peculiar excellence (Pro 16:31).

Clarke: Pro 20:29 - -- The glory of young men is their strength - Scarcely any young man affects to be wise, learned, etc.; but all delight to show their strength and to b...

The glory of young men is their strength - Scarcely any young man affects to be wise, learned, etc.; but all delight to show their strength and to be reputed strong. Agility, one evidence of strength, their particularly affect; and hence their various trials of strength and fleetness in public exercises

Clarke: Pro 20:29 - -- And the beauty of old men is the gray head - They no longer affect strength and agility, but they affect wisdom, experience, prudent counsels, etc.,...

And the beauty of old men is the gray head - They no longer affect strength and agility, but they affect wisdom, experience, prudent counsels, etc., and are fond of being reputed wise, and of having respect paid to their understanding and experience.

TSK: Pro 20:29 - -- glory : Jer 9:23, Jer 9:24; 1Jo 2:14 the beauty : Pro 16:31; Lev 19:32

glory : Jer 9:23, Jer 9:24; 1Jo 2:14

the beauty : Pro 16:31; Lev 19:32

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Poole: Pro 20:29 - -- The glory of young men that wherein they glory as their privilege above old men. The beauty of old men is the grey head i.e. their old age, express...

The glory of young men that wherein they glory as their privilege above old men.

The beauty of old men is the grey head i.e. their old age, expressed by the outward sign of it, wherein they glory as their peculiar privilege, as a testimony of their piety and God’ s blessing, and as a token of their great experience and wisdom. The design of this proverb is to declare the several advantages of several ages, and the mutual need they have one of another, and thereby to engage them to mutual love and assistance, and to friendly converse, and to make every one contented with his own age and condition, and not to envy nor yet despise his brother, or the difference of their ages, as is very usual among men.

Gill: Pro 20:29 - -- The glory of young men is their strength,.... That is the excellent thing in them, and it is to their honour when it is employed in the service of th...

The glory of young men is their strength,.... That is the excellent thing in them, and it is to their honour when it is employed in the service of their king and country, and especially in the service of God and religion; though it does not become them to glory in it, Jer 9:23;

and the beauty of old men is the gray head; an index of wisdom and prudence; see Job 12:12. The design of the proverb is to show that both have their excellencies and usefulness, young men and old men, and should not despise one another; nor either of them be despised in a commonwealth, both being useful in it, the one for strength, the other for counsel; and so in the church of Christ; see 1Jo 2:13.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 20:29 “Grey hair” is a metonymy of adjunct; it represents everything valuable about old age – dignity, wisdom, honor, experience, as well ...

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MHCC: Pro 20:29 - --Both young and old have their advantages; and let neither despise or envy the other.

Matthew Henry: Pro 20:29 - -- This shows that both young and old have their advantages, and therefore must each of them be, according to their capacities, serviceable to the publ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 20:29 - -- 29 The ornament of young men is their strength; And the honour of the old is grey hairs. Youth has the name בּחוּר (different from בּחוּ...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 19:1--22:17 - --4. Further advice for pleasing God 19:1-22:16 As was true in the chapter 10-15 section, this one (16:1-22:16) also becomes more difficult to outline a...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 20 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 20 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 20

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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