Proverbs 20:29
The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exsultatio juvenum fortitudo eorum, et dignitas senum canities.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 20:23
- κόσμος νεανίαις σοφία, δόξα δὲ πρεσβυτέρων πολιαί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תִּפְאֶ֣רֶת בַּחוּרִ֣ים כֹּחָ֑ם וַהֲדַ֖ר זְקֵנִ֣ים שֵׂיבָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Hairs, and experience. They have a greater contempt of death and pleasures. (St. Ambrose, Hex. i. 8.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.