Job 15:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:6-7 : 6 Elihu Claims Wisdom So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up:“I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know. 7 I said to myself,‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 Gray hair is like a crown of glory; it is attained in the path of righteousness.
  • Deut 32:7 : 7 Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 “For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors; 9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow. 10 Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?
  • Job 12:12 : 12 Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

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    8Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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    11Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

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    12Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

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    7Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

  • Job 30:1-2
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    29The glory of young men is their strength, and the splendor of old men is gray hair.

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    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

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    18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

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    9It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

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    8“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

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    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

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    27Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”

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    9Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!

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    31Gray hair is like a crown of glory; it is attained in the path of righteousness.

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    1For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.

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    1Instructions about Specific Groups Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

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    10The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him,“Say this to these people who have said to you,‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’– say this to them:‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

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    2“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

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    22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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    20He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

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    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

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    29If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

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