Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Job 32:7 - New Revised Standard Version I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I said, Age should speak, and a multitude of years should teach wisdom [so let it be heard]. American Standard Version (1901) I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom. Common English Bible I thought, Let days speak; let multiple years make wisdom known. Catholic Public Domain Version For I had hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom. |
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.
It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food;