Job 32:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

Matthew 11:25

At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

John 7:48

Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

Jeremiah 5:5

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the judgement of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bands.

Job 32:7

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

Job 32:10

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

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 4:21

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way. נ NUN