6 Bible Verses about Disrespect For Old Age

And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.