Proverbs 20:29 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 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 public, and neither of them despise nor envy the other. 1. Let not old people despise the young, for they are strong and fit for action, able to go through business and break through difficulties, which the aged and weak cannot grapple with.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 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 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:29: The glory of young men . . . the beauty of old men--Each age has its peculiar excellence (Pro 16:31).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:29: 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 בּחוּר, chosen), of the maturity (R. בחר, cogn. בכר, בגר, whence Mishn. בּגרוּת, manhood, in contradistinction to נערוּת) into which he enters from the bloom of boyhood; and the old man is called זקן (Arab.