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

And so Job died, old and full of days.

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

I said to myself, ‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.