6 Bible Verses about Disrespect For Old Age

Most Relevant Verses

2 Kings 2:23

And he went up from thence, to Bethel, - and, as he was going up on the way, some lads, came forth, out of the city, and made mockery of him, and said to him, Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!

Isaiah 3:5

And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend, - And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,

Job 30:1

But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused - to set with the dogs of my flock.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.

Deuteronomy 28:50

a nation of fierce countenance, - who wilt not respect an elder nor to the young, show favour;

Isaiah 47:6

I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, -- Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy thy yoke.

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