12 Wisdom is found with the elderly,
and understanding comes with long life.(A)

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12 Is not wisdom found among the aged?(A)
    Does not long life bring understanding?(B)

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

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Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.(A)

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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when[a] she is old.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:22 Or because

Saying 17

22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
    and do not despise your mother when she is old.(A)

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12 Princes are hung up by their hands;
elders are shown no respect.(A)

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12 Princes have been hung up by their hands;
    elders(A) are shown no respect.(B)

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Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

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Widows, Elders and Slaves

Do not rebuke an older man(A) harshly,(B) but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men(C) as brothers,

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