Psalm 119:100
I understand more than the aged [who have not observed Your precepts],
Because I have observed and kept Your precepts.
1 Kings 12:6-15
King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served and advised his father Solomon while he was still alive and said, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Job 12:12
“With the aged [you say] is wisdom,
And with
Job 15:9-10
“What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?
Job 28:28
“But to man He said, ‘Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is understanding.’”
Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were years older than he.
Job 32:7-10
“I thought age should speak,
And a multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Psalm 111:10
The [reverent] fear of the Lord is the beginning (the prerequisite, the absolute essential, the alphabet) of wisdom;
A good understanding and a teachable heart are possessed by all those who do the will of the Lord;
His praise endures forever.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us [and we are learned in its language and teachings]’?
Behold, [the truth is that] the lying pen of the scribes
Has made the law into a lie [a mere code of ceremonial observances].
Matthew 7:24
James 3:13
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him by his good conduct show his [good] deeds with the gentleness and humility of true wisdom.
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Understand
“With the aged [you say] is wisdom,
And with
“What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?
Because
The [reverent] fear of the Lord is the beginning (the prerequisite, the absolute essential, the alphabet) of wisdom;
A good understanding and a teachable heart are possessed by all those who do the will of the Lord;
His praise endures forever.
“But to man He said, ‘Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is understanding.’”
“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us [and we are learned in its language and teachings]’?
Behold, [the truth is that] the lying pen of the scribes
Has made the law into a lie [a mere code of ceremonial observances].
General references
“They are all straightforward to him who understands [with an open and willing mind],
And right to those who find knowledge and live by it.