Job 32:9

God's Word

People do not become wise merely because they live long. They don’t understand what justice is merely because they’re old.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:38

The king said to his officers, “Don’t you know that today a leader, a great man, has fallen in Israel?

Job 12:20

He makes trusted advisers unable to speak and takes away the good judgment of respected leaders.

Job 32:10

“That is why I say, ‘Listen to me! Let me tell you what I know.’

Job 32:7

I thought, ‘Age should speak, and experience should teach wisdom.’

Job 4:21

Haven’t the ropes of their tent been loosened? Won’t they die without wisdom?

Psalm 119:100

I have more wisdom than those with many years of experience, because I have obeyed your guiding principles.

Psalm 119:104

From your guiding principles I gain understanding. That is why I hate every path that leads to lying.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

A young man who is poor and wise is better than an old, foolish king who won’t take advice any longer.

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to important people and speak to them. They know the way of the Lord and the justice that God demands.” But they, too, had broken off their yokes and torn off their chains.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from wise and intelligent people and revealing them to little children.

John 7:48

Has any ruler or any Pharisee believed in him?