Job 32:9
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Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
In other translations
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
Hebrew words
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