GREAT MEN ARE NOT ALWAYS WISE NEITHER DO THE AGED UNDERSTAND JUDGMENT

JOB 32:4-10

NOW ELIHU HAD WAITED 
TILL JOB HAD SPOKEN, 
BECAUSE THEY 
WERE ELDER THAN HE.
WHEN ELIHU SAW 
THAT THERE WAS 
NO ANSWER IN THE MOUTH 
OF THESE THREE MEN,
THEN HIS WRATH WAS KINDLED.

AND ELIHU THE SON OF BARACHEL 
THE BUZITE ANSWERED AND SAID, 
I AM YOUNG, AND YE ARE VERY OLD; 
WHEREFORE I WAS AFRAID, 
AND DURST NOT SHEW 
YOU MINE OPINION.
I SAID, DAYS SHOULD SPEAK, 
AND MULTITUDE OF YEARS 
SHOULD TEACH WISDOM.
BUT THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN: 
AND THE INSPIRATION 
OF THE ALMIGHTY GIVETH 
THEM UNDERSTANDING.
GREAT MEN ARE NOT 
ALWAYS WISE: 
NEITHER DO THE 
AGED UNDERSTAND JUDGMENT.
THEREFORE I SAID, 
HEARKEN TO ME; 
I ALSO WILL SHEW MINE OPINION.
BEHOLD, I WAITED FOR YOUR WORDS; 
I GAVE EAR TO YOUR REASONS, 
WHILST YE SEARCHED 
OUT WHAT TO SAY.
YEA, I ATTENDED UNTO YOU, 
AND, BEHOLD, 
THERE WAS NONE OF YOU 
THAT CONVINCED JOB, 
OR THAT ANSWERED HIS WORDS:
LEST YE SHOULD SAY, 
WE HAVE FOUND OUT WISDOM: 
GOD THRUSTETH HIM DOWN, 
NOT MAN.
NOW HE HATH NOT 
DIRECTED HIS WORDS 
AGAINST ME: NEITHER WILL 
I ANSWER HIM WITH 
YOUR SPEECHES.
THEY WERE AMAZED, 
THEY ANSWERED NO MORE: 
THEY LEFT OFF SPEAKING.

LOVE

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