Topic
Age, Old
6 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 19:32Smith
¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- Job 5:26Smith
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- Job 15:10Smith
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
- Job 32:4Smith
Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- Proverbs 16:31Smith
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
- Proverbs 20:29Smith
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 6 references
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 0 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → See OLD AGE
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.