Job 32:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ It is not the old who are wise nor the aged who understand what is right.

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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

Job 12:20

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who will no longer take advice.

John 7:48

Has any one of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Job 32:7

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

Job 32:10

Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.’

2 Samuel 3:38

And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

Job 4:21

Their tent cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.’

Psalm 119:100

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

Psalm 119:104

Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.