So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:

‘I am young in years,
    and you are old;
that is why I was fearful,
    not daring to tell you what I know.
I thought, “Age should speak;
    advanced years should teach wisdom.”
But it is the spirit[a] in a person,
    the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:8 Or Spirit; also in verse 18