13 Bible Verses about Experience, of life

Wisdom is found with the elderly,
and understanding comes with long life.

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite replied:

I am young in years,
while you are old;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to tell you what I know.
I thought that age should speak
and maturity should teach wisdom.

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to these people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.

Listen, my sons, to a father’s discipline,
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
for I am giving you good instruction.
Don’t abandon my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
tender and precious to my mother,
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he taught me and said:
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.

I saw, and took it to heart;
I looked, and received instruction:

In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble reap the same.
They perish at a single blast from God
and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things
and consider the Lord’s acts of faithful love.

endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

You reveal the path of life to me;
in Your presence is abundant joy;
in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.