Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Job 32:7 - 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 old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, 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 some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;