Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:29

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

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

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Verse 29

Original words

The gloryתִּפְאֶ֣רֶתH8597Noun - feminine singular constructof young menבַּחוּרִ֣יםH970Noun - masculine pluralis their strengthכֹּחָ֑םH3581Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine pluraland gray hairשֵׂיבָֽה׃H7872Noun - feminine singularis the splendorוַהֲדַ֖רH1926Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular constructof the oldזְקֵנִ֣יםH2205Adjective - masculine plural

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