Job 32:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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 old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Job 12:12

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

Job 32:9

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

Psalm 119:100

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

Proverbs 16:31

A hoary head 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 some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;