Job 12:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Is wisdom with the aged and understanding in length of days?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

With the ancient is wisdom; And in length of days understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

With the aged [you say] is wisdom, and with length of days comes understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.

Common English Bible

“In old age is wisdom; understanding in a long life.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

In the ancient is wisdom: and in length of days prudence.

Job 12:12 Cross References

1 Kings 12:6

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Job 15:10

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.

Job 32:6

Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Let days speak and many years teach wisdom.’

Job 8:8

“For inquire now of bygone generations and consider what their ancestors have found,