Age and wisdom

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• Job 12:12

  With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

• Job 32:7

  I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

• 1 Timothy 4:12

  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

• Proverbs 16:31

  The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

• Psalms 91:1–16

  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. …

• Proverbs 19:20

  Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

• Psalms 71:18

  Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

• James 3:17

  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

• Proverbs 20:29

  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

  Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

• Isaiah 46:4

  And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

• Job 32:6–8

  And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

• Psalms 90:12

  So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

• Isaiah 43:1–3

  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

• Job 32:9

  Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

• Matthew 7:24

  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

• 1 Timothy 5:1

  Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

• Leviticus 19:32

  Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

• James 1:5

  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

• Proverbs 29:11

  A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

• Proverbs 13:10

  Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

• Job 14:1

  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

• Colossians 4:5–6

  Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

• Proverbs 11:2

  When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

• Proverbs 14:29

  He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

• Psalms 90:10

  The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

• Deuteronomy 32:7

  Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

• Psalms 111:10

  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

• Proverbs 2:6

  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

• Titus 2:2–3

  That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

• Joel 2:28

  And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

• Ephesians 5:15–16

  See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

• Proverbs 4:6–7

  Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

• Ecclesiastes 7:10

  Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

• Proverbs 3:7

  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

• James 3:13

  Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

• Proverbs 17:6

  Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

• Proverbs 16:16

  How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

• Psalms 119:100

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