Job 32:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷I said, “Let days speak,
    and many years teach wisdom.”
⁸But truly it is the spirit in a mortal,
    the breath of the Almighty,^[a] that makes for understanding.
⁹It is not the old^[b] that are wise,
    nor the aged that understand what is right.

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Footnotes

Job 32:8 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Job 32:9 Gk Syr Vg: Heb many

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