Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 20:29

29 The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the gray head .

That wherein they glory as their Priviledge above old men.

i. e. Their old Age expressed by the outward sign of it, wherein they glory as their peculiar Priviledge, as a Testimony of their Piety and God's Blessing, and as a token of their great experience and wisdom. The design of this Proverb is to declare the several advantages of several Ages▪ and the mutual need they have one of another, and thereby to engage them to mutual love and assistance, and to friendly converse, and to make every one contented with his own Age and Condition, and not to envy nor yet despise his Brother or the difference of their Ages, as is very usual among men.

Marginal references: Ch. 16. 31.