Job 32:7 - Exposition

I said ; i.e. "I kept saying to myself, when the desire to interrupt came upon me." Days should speak . Age should give wisdom, and the speech of the old should be most worthy of being attended to. Elihu had been brought up in this conviction, and therefore refrained himself. And multitude of years should teach wisdom . "Old experience should attain to something of prophetic strain." "One ought to give attention," says Aristotle, "to the mere unproved assertions of wise and aged men, as much as to the actual demonstrations of others" ('Eth. Nit.,' Job 6:11 , ad fin . comp. also Job 10:12 ; Job 15:10 ; Proverbs 16:31 ).