32:7 I said to myself, ‘Age 1 should speak, 2
and length of years 3 should make wisdom known.’
32:9 It is not the aged 4 who are wise,
nor old men who understand what is right.
[32:7] 1 tn Heb “days.”
[32:7] 2 tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.
[32:7] 3 tn Heb “abundance of years.”
[32:9] 4 tn The MT has “the great” or “the many,” meaning great in years according to the parallelism.
