I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.

我比年老的更明白，因我守了你的训词。

我比年老的更明白，因我谨守你的训词。

我比年老的更明白，因我谨守你的训词。

我比长者更明智，因为我遵守你的法则。

我比老年人更明理，因为我遵守你的训词。

我比长老们更有悟性，因为我谨守你的训诫。

我比年老的更明白，因我守了你的訓詞。

我比年老的更明白，因我謹守你的訓詞。

我比年老的更明白，因我謹守你的訓詞。

我比長者更明智，因為我遵守你的法則。

我比老年人更明理，因為我遵守你的訓詞。

我比老年人明理，因為你的訓令我恪守着。

我比長老們更有悟性，因為我謹守你的訓誡。

我所通達、越於耆老、以我守爾訓詞兮、

我恪守爾道、故較老成、尤明晰兮、

我有知識、逾於老成人、因我遵守主之命令、

遵行宏範。智邁父執。

I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

I understand more than the elders do, because I obey your rules.

I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.

I understand more than the elders because I obey your precepts.

I understand more than those who are old, Because I have complied with Your precepts.

I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.

I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.

I understand more than the elders because I obey Your precepts.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

How can you say,“ We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

To obey the LORD is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

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

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,“ How do you advise me to answer these people?”They said to him,“ Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.”But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.He asked them,“ How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me,‘ Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”The 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!My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said,“ Return to me on the third day.”The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older menand followed the advice of the younger ones. He said,“ My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”The king refused to listen to the people, because the LORD was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

I said to myself,‘ Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.Therefore I say,‘ Listen to me. I, even I, will explain what I know.’

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

And he said to mankind,‘ The fear of the LORD– that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

“ Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.