Job 32:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ I said, ‘Let days speak and many years teach wisdom.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ I said, Age should speak, and a multitude of years should teach wisdom [so let it be heard].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Common English Bible

⁷ I thought, Let days speak; let multiple years make wisdom known.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For I had hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

Job 32:7 Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:6

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 12:12

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

Job 15:10

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

Job 32:9

It is not the old who are wise nor the aged who understand what is right.

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,