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Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered:

“I am young in years,
    and you are aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
    to declare my opinion to you.
I said, ‘Let days speak,
    and many years teach wisdom.’
But truly it is the spirit in a mortal,
    the breath of the Almighty,[a] that makes for understanding.
It is not the old[b] that are wise,
    nor the aged that understand what is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:8 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. Job 32:9 Gk Syr Vg: Heb many

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