Teks -- Proverbs 20:29 (NET)

20:29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the splendor of old men is gray hair.

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JFB: Pro 20:29 - The glory of young men . . . the beauty of old men

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

Clarke: Pro 20:29 - The glory of young men is their strength

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

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 // the beauty

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 // The beauty of old men is the grey head

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 // and the beauty of old men is the gray head

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.