Job 32:6

World English Bible (2000)

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
  • 1 Tim 5:1 : 1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 17:28-30 : 28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle." 29 David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?" 30 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.
  • Job 15:7 : 7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

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