The glory ¹  of young men is their strength, and the splendor ²  of old men is gray hair. ³ 

biblegateway Pro 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, And the honor of old men is their gray hair.

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

While the glory of young men is their strength, the splendor of older people is their silver hair.

biblegateway Pro 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, grey hair the splendour of the old.

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

bibleoremus Pro 20:29

The glory of youths is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is their gray hair.

The glory of young men is their strength, the dignity of old men their grey hairs.

biblegateway Pro 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, And the splendor of old men is their gray head.

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

biblegateway Pro 20:29

The glory ¹  of young men is their strength, and the splendor ²  of old men is gray hair. ³ 

¹ tn The Hebrew term תִּפְאֶרֶת (tif’eret) means “beauty; glory”; in a context like this it means “honor” in the sense of glorying or boasting (BDB 802 s.v. 3.b).

² tn The Hebrew term הֲדַר (hadar), the noun in construct, means “splendor; honor; ornament.” The latter sense is used here, since grey hair is like a crown on the head.

³ sn “Grey hair” is a metonymy of adjunct; it represents everything valuable about old age – dignity, wisdom, honor, experience, as well as worry and suffering of life. At the very least, since they survived, they must know something. At the most, they were the sages and elders of the people.