Job 15:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:6-7 : 6 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you. 7 I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.
  • Deut 32:7 : 7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:) 10 Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?
  • Job 12:12 : 12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

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  • Job 15:8-9
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    8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

    9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

  • 11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

  • Job 12:12-13
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    12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

    13 With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

  • 7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

  • Job 30:1-2
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    1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

  • 29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.

  • 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • 18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

  • 9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

  • Job 8:8-9
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    8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

  • 5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • 6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • 3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

  • Ps 90:9-12
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    9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

    10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

    11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

    12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

  • 27 See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

  • 9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

  • 31 The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

  • 1 Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:

  • 10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

  • Job 12:2-3
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    2 No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

    3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

  • 32 Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

  • 4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • 15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • 2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

  • 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

  • 22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • 13 A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.

  • 6 So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

  • 10 Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

  • 31 And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

  • 10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

  • 20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

  • 6 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

  • 8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

  • 21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

  • 4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

  • 29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

  • 15 But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:

  • 14 We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

  • 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?