Proverbs 20:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. ”

Proverbs 20:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
Proverbs 20:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. The glory of young men is their strength - Scarcely any young man affects to be wise, learned, etc.; but all...
Proverbs 20:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. The glory of young men (is) their strength (so long as they rightly use it); and the beauty of old men (i...
Proverbs 20:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Proverbs 20:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The beauty of old men is the grey head. — As suggesting the possession of experience and wisdom. It is the fault of the aged, therefore, if they do not receive the honour due to them, and this aris...
Proverbs 20:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
Proverbs 20:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Glory of Young Men” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27 ! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature e...
Proverbs 20:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
Proverbs 20:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the candle of the...
Proverbs 20:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 se...
Proverbs 20:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head. Ver. 29. The glory of young men is their strength. ] If well used in following their callings, and fightin...
Proverbs 20:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The glory of young men That wherein they glory as their privilege above old men; is their strength Namely, of body, and vigour and courage of mind; their fitness for action, their ability to go t...
Proverbs 20:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. This shows that both young and old have their advantages, and therefore must each of them...
Proverbs 20:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 glo...
Proverbs 20:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:29 THE GLORY OF YOUTH AND AGE I. Each period of life has a value and a glory of its own . There is a beauty in spring to which no other season of the year can ap...
Proverbs 20:29 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 I. The glory of young men is their physical strength. In the great battle against the kingdom of darkness we want, not only a consecrated soul, but a strong arm, stout lungs, and vi...
Proverbs 20:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Proverbs 20:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

The glory of young men is their strength. The glory of young men Power, force, might, strength, are divers names for a thing which always has been, and always will be, admirable in human esteem...
Proverbs 20:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
Proverbs 20:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 29. The glory of young men is their strength, for they are in the first flush of their manhood, and their physical power is at its best; and the beauty of old men is the gray head, which gives...
Proverbs 20:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:14 ; Jeremiah 9:23 ; Jeremiah 9:24 ; Leviticus 19:32 ; Proverbs 16:31

Proverbs 20:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge