Job 32:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It is not the old who are wise nor the aged who understand what is right.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:38

And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

Job 12:20

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Job 32:10

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

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Let days speak and many years teach wisdom.’

Job 4:21

Their tent cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.’

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the aged, for 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 but wise youth than an old but foolish king who will no longer take advice.

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;

John 7:48

Has any one of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?