Job 32:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁹ Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Great men are not always wise: Neither do the aged understand judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ It is not the great [necessarily] who are wise, nor [always] the aged who understand justice.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.

Common English Bible

⁹ The advanced in days aren’t wise; the old don’t understand what’s right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The wise are not the aged, nor do the elders understand judgment.

Job 32:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:38

And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

Job 12:20

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

Job 32:10

Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show mine opinion.

Job 32:7

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

Job 4:21

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? They die, even without wisdom.

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and a wise child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

John 7:48

Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?