Job 32:9

⁹ It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

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Job 12:11–13

¹¹ Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food? ¹² Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life. ¹³ Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–9

⁷ But a righteous man, even if he dies before his time, will be at rest. (WEB) ⁸ For honorable old age is not that which stands in length of time, nor is its measure given by number of years, (WEB) ⁹ but understanding is gray hair to men, and an unspotted life is ripe old age. (WEB)

Sirach 8:5–7

⁵ Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin. Remember that we are all worthy of punishment. (WEB) ⁶ Don’t dishonor a man in his old age, for some of us are also growing old. (WEB) ⁷ Don’t rejoice over anyone’s death. Remember that we all die. (WEB)

Ecclesiastes 4:12–14

¹² And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. ¹³ Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning. ¹⁴ For the youth has come from the prison to the kin…

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³ If you gathered nothing in your youth, how could you find anything in your old age? (WEB) ⁴ How beautiful a thing is judgment in the gray-haired, and for elders to know good counsel! (WEB) ⁵ How beautiful is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men who are i… (WEB)

Baruch 3:19–21

¹⁹ they have vanished and gone down to Hades, and others have come up in their place. (WEB) ²⁰ Younger men have seen the light and lived upon the earth, but they haven’t known the way of knowledge, (WEB) ²¹ nor understood its paths. Their children haven’t embraced it. They are far… (WEB)

Job 15:9–11

⁹ What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? ¹⁰ Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father. ¹¹ Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

Sirach 19:21–23

²¹ If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth him. (KJV) ²² The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom. The prudence of sinners is not counsel. (WEB) ²³ There is a wickedness, and it is an abomination… (WEB)

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