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I thought, ‘Age should speak,
    and experience should teach wisdom.’
However, there is in humans a Ruach,
    the breath of Shadday, that gives them understanding.
People do not become wise merely because they live long.
    They don’t understand what justice is merely because they’re old.

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I thought, ‘Age should speak;
    advanced years should teach wisdom.’(A)
But it is the spirit[a](B) in a person,
    the breath of the Almighty,(C) that gives them understanding.(D)
It is not only the old[b] who are wise,(E)
    not only the aged(F) who understand what is right.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:8 Or Spirit; also in verse 18
  2. Job 32:9 Or many; or great