Older people are wise, and long life brings understanding.
King Rehoboam asked the elders who had advised Solomon during his lifetime, “How do you think I should answer these people?”
Old people with gray hair are on our side; they are even older than your father.
So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said this: “I am young, and you are old. That is why I was afraid to tell you what I know.
I thought, ‘Older people should speak, and those who have lived many years should teach wisdom.’
“Ask old people; find out what their ancestors learned,
