Job 32:9

Modern English Version

Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged always understand judgment.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:38

David said to his servant, “Do you not understand that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?

Job 12:20

He removes speech from the trusted ones and takes away the understanding of the aged.

Job 32:10

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

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Age should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

Job 4:21

Are not their tent ropes plucked up, so they die, even without wisdom?’

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts.

Psalm 119:104

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

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who no longer knows how to receive a warning.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they have known the way of the Lord and the judgment of their God.” But these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to infants.

John 7:48

Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?