Job 12:12

New English Translation

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Cross References

1 Kings 12:6

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

Job 15:10

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Job 32:6

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: “I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know.

Job 32:7

I said to myself, ‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

Job 8:8

“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;