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.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

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

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Verse 29

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The glory תִּפְאֶ֣רֶת H8597 Noun - feminine singular construct of young men בַּחוּרִ֣ים H970 Noun - masculine plural is their strength כֹּחָ֑ם H3581 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural and gray hair שֵׂיבָֽה׃ H7872 Noun - feminine singular is the splendor וַהֲדַ֖ר H1926 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct of the old זְקֵנִ֣ים H2205 Adjective - masculine plural

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