the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Job 12:12
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Wisdom is found with the elderly,and understanding comes with long life.
With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Older people are wise, and long life brings understanding.
Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
"With the aged [you say] is wisdom, And with long life is understanding.
"Wisdom is with the aged, And with long life comes understanding.
With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.
Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.
Wisdom is with aged men,With long life is discernment.
Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
and gain some wisdom from those who have lived a long time.
Is wisdom [only] with aged men? discernment [only] with long life?
With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
People say, ‘Wisdom is to be found in those who are old. Long life brings understanding.'
With the elders is wisdom; and in length of days, understanding.
Old people have wisdom, but God has wisdom and power. Old people have insight; God has insight and power to act. <
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding is in length of days.
With the aged is wisdom, and understanding is in the length of days.
Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.
With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days?--
With the ancient is wisedome, and in length of dayes, vnderstanding.
Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding.
In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.
With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
Wisdom is in elde men, and prudence is in myche tyme.
With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Wisdom is with aged men, And with length of days, understanding.
Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old.
Wisdom is with old men, and understanding with long life.
Is wisdom with the aged, and understanding in length of days?
In the Ancient, is wisdom, and in Length of Days, understanding:
In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
With the very aged [is] wisdom, And [with] length of days understanding.
"Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 8:8, Job 15:10, Job 32:7
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:6 - consulted 2 Chronicles 10:6 - took counsel Job 15:7 - the first Psalms 119:100 - understand Joel 1:2 - ye old Titus 2:2 - the
Cross-References
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .
Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, ‘Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."
Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'"
The men of the place questioned him about his wife. He said, "She's my sister." He was afraid to say "She's my wife." He was thinking, "These men might kill me to get Rebekah, she's so beautiful."
David thought to himself, "Sooner or later, Saul's going to get me. The best thing I can do is escape to Philistine country. Saul will count me a lost cause and quit hunting me down in every nook and cranny of Israel. I'll be out of his reach for good."
The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in God protects you from that.
"Don't be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There's nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
With the ancient [is] wisdom,.... Meaning not himself, who was not very ancient; though some think Eliphaz so understood him; hence those words of his, in Job 15:9; rather, as others, Job tacitly wishes that some ancient man, with whom wisdom was, would undertake to examine the affair between him and his friends, and judge of it, and decide the point; or, as others, he has respect to Bildad's advice to search the fathers, and learn their sentiments, and be determined by them; to which he replies, that though it will be allowed that wisdom is with them, for the most part, yet their judgment of things is no further to be regarded than as it agrees with the wisdom of God, and the revelation he has made of his will; though it seems best of all to consider these words as an adage or proverbial sentence generally agreed to, that it often is, as it might be expected it should, though it is not always, that men well advanced in years are wise; that as they have lived long in the world, they have learned much by observation and experience, and have attained to a considerable share of wisdom and knowledge in things, natural, civil, and religious:
and in length of days is understanding; the understandings of men are improved and enriched, and well stored with useful science, having had the opportunity of much reading, hearing, and conversation; by this Job would suggest, that if his friends had more knowledge of hidden and recondite things, beyond common people, which yet they had not, it was not so wonderful, since they were aged men, and had lived long in the world; or rather it may be that this is mentioned, to observe that from hence, seeing it is so among men, that ancient men have, or it may be expected they should have, a considerable share of wisdom and understanding; it may be most easily and strongly concluded, that God, who is the Ancient of days, has the most perfect and consummate wisdom and knowledge, which is asserted in Job 12:13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
With the ancient is wisdom - With the aged. The word ישׁישׁ yâshı̂ysh used here, means an old man, one gray-headed. It is used chiefly in poetry, and is commonly employed in the sense of one who is decrepit by age. It is rendered “very aged” in Job 15:10; “him that stooped for age.” 2 Chronicles 36:17; “very old,” Job 32:6; and “the aged,” Job 29:8 The Septuagint renders it, Ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ En pollō chronō “in much time.” The sense is, that wisdom might be expected to be found with the man who had had a long opportunity to observe the course of events; who had conversed with a former generation, and who had had time for personal reflection. This was in accordance with the ancient Oriental views, where knowledge was imparted mainly by tradition, and where wisdom depended much on the opportunity of personal observation; compare Job 32:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 12:12. With the ancient is wisdom — Men who have lived in those primitive times, when the great facts of nature were recent, such as the creation, fall, flood, confusion of tongues, migration of families, and consequent settlement of nations, had much knowledge from those facts; and their length of days-the many hundreds of years to which they lived, gave them such an opportunity of accumulating wisdom by experience, that they are deservedly considered as oracles.
