Psalm 119:100

I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.

1 Kings 12:6-15

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, "How do you advise me to answer these people?"

Job 12:12

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Job 15:9-10

What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?

Job 28:28

And he said to mankind, 'The fear of the Lord -- that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"

Job 32:4

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

Job 32:7-10

I said to myself, 'Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.'

Psalm 111:10

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

Jeremiah 8:8-9

How can you say, "We are wise! We have the law of the Lord"? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.

Matthew 7:24

"Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

James 3:13

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

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
King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, "How do you advise me to answer these people?"
Job 12:12
Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
Job 15:9
What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?
Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

Because

Psalm 111:10
To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.
Job 28:28
And he said to mankind, 'The fear of the Lord -- that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, "We are wise! We have the law of the Lord"? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
Matthew 7:24
"Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

General references

Deuteronomy 17:19
It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
Proverbs 8:9
All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.

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