Thematic Bible: Disrespect for pleasure-seeking


Thematic Bible



So Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite spoke out and said,
“I am young in years and you are old;
Therefore I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think.
Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifeYouthLimitations Of Youth



Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.
Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age