Quotes About Experience

Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”

Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?

Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

And Job continued his discourse:

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

And so Job died, old and full of years.

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.

Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.