Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the elders
because I obey Your precepts.

1 Kings 12:6-15

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?”

Job 12:12

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

Job 15:9-10

What do you know that we don’t?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Job 28:28

He said to mankind,
“The fear of the Lord is this: wisdom.
And to turn from evil is understanding.”

Job 32:4

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were all older than he.

Job 32:7-10

I thought that age should speak
and maturity should teach wisdom.

Psalm 111:10

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow His instructions have good insight.
His praise endures forever.

Jeremiah 8:8-9

“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;
the law of the Lord is with us’?
In fact, the lying pen of scribes
has produced falsehood.

Matthew 7:24

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock.

James 3:13

Who is wise and has understanding among you? He should show his works by good conduct with wisdom’s gentleness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Understand

1 Kings 12:6
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?”
Job 12:12
Wisdom is found with the elderly,
and understanding comes with long life.
Job 15:9
What do you know that we don’t?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were all older than he.

Because

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow His instructions have good insight.
His praise endures forever.
Job 28:28
He said to mankind,
“The fear of the Lord is this: wisdom.
And to turn from evil is understanding.”
Jeremiah 8:8
“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;
the law of the Lord is with us’?
In fact, the lying pen of scribes
has produced falsehood.
Matthew 7:24
“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock.
James 3:13
Who is wise and has understanding among you? He should show his works by good conduct with wisdom’s gentleness.

General references

Deuteronomy 17:19
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.
Proverbs 8:9
All of them are clear to the perceptive,
and right to those who discover knowledge.

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