Job 15:10
Good News Translation
We learned our wisdom from gray-haired people--those born before your father.

New Revised Standard Version
The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.

Contemporary English Version
We have the benefit of wisdom older than your father.

New American Bible
There are gray-haired old men among us, more advanced in years than your father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.

the gray-headed

Job 8:8-11 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: . . .

Job 12:20 He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.

Job 32:6,7 Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am younger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

Proverbs 16:31 Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
9What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not? 10There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.11Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:25
Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

Job 12:12
In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.

Job 32:6
Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am younger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.

Job 32:7
For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

Job 15:9
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