Verse List for JOB 12:12

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Wisdom comes with age, ⇔ and understanding comes from a long life.

OET-LV is_with_aged_people wisdom and_is _with_length _of days understanding.

ULT With the aged, is wisdom, ⇔  and in length of days, is understanding.

UST Older people have usually become wise. ⇔  Because they have lived a long time, they have learned many things.

BSB & MSB Wisdom is found with the elderly, ⇔  and understanding comes with long life.

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB With aged men is wisdom, ⇔  in length of days understanding.

NET Is not wisdom found among the aged? ⇔ Does not long life bring understanding?

LSV With the very aged [is] wisdom,
And [with] length of days [is] understanding.

FBV Wisdom to distinguish belongs to the old, and the ability to rightly discriminate belongs to those with long experience.[fn]

T4T Old people are often very wise, ⇔  and because of having lived many years, they understand much,

LEB • Wisdom is with the aged,
• and understanding is in length of days.

BBE Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

Moff Wisdom, you argue, lies with 12 aged men, ⇔  a long life means intelligence?

JPS Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days? —

ASV With aged men is wisdom, ⇔ And in length of days understanding.

DRA In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.

YLT With the very aged [is] wisdom, And [with] length of days understanding.

Drby With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

RV With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

SLT With old men is wisdom, and length of days, understanding.

Wbstr With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

KJB-1769 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

KJB-1611 With the ancient is wisedome, and in length of dayes, vnderstanding.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding.
(Among old persons there is wisdom, and in age is understanding.)

Gnva Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.
(Among the ancient is wisdom, and in the length of days is understanding.)

Cvdl Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.
(Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding.)

Wycl Wisdom is in elde men, and prudence is in myche tyme.
(Wisdom is in old men, and prudence is in much time.)

Luth Ja, bei den Großvätern ist die Weisheit und der Verstand bei den Alten.
(Yes, at/in the Großvätern is the wise_(people) and the/of_the mind at/in the old_(ones/times/things).)

ClVg In antiquis est sapientia, et in multo tempore prudentia.
(In ancient it_is wisdom, and in/into/on much at_the_time prudence.)

UHB בִּֽ⁠ישִׁישִׁ֥ים חָכְמָ֑ה וְ⁠אֹ֖רֶךְ יָמִ֣ים תְּבוּנָֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ σοφία, ἐν δὲ πολλῷ βίῳ ἐπιστήμη.

BrTr In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.