6 Bible Verses about Disrespect For Old Age

And he went from thence up to Bethel. And as he was going up in the way, there came little lads out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, thou bald head! Go up thou baldhead!"

One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies; they have not spared the old sage men;

a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young.

I was so wroth with my people, that I punished mine inheritance, and gave them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showedest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didst thou oppress right sore with thy yoke.