Pro 20:29 | NET2full | STEP | The glory of young men is their strength , and the splendor of old men is gray hair .

Proverbs 20:29

29 The glory ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew term תִּפְאֶרֶת (tifʾeret) means “beauty; glory”; in a context like this it means “honor” in the sense of glorying or boasting (BDB 802 s.v. 3.b).} of young men is their strength,
and the splendor ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew term הֲדַר (hadar), the noun in construct, means “splendor; honor; ornament.” The latter sense is used here, since grey hair is like a crown on the head.} of old men is gray hair. ^{▼▼sn Gray hair is a metonymy of adjunct; it represents everything valuable about old age—dignity, wisdom, honor, experience, as well as worry and suffering of life. At the very least, since they survived, they must know something. At the most, they were the sages and elders of the people.}