Job 12:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

Job 15:10

With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

Job 32:6

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Job 32:7

I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Job 8:8

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: