¹² Is not wisdom found among the aged?^(A)
    Does not long life bring understanding?^(B)

⁷ I thought, ‘Age should speak;
    advanced years should teach wisdom.’^(A)

¹⁰ The gray-haired and the aged^(A) are on our side,
    men even older than your father.^(B)

⁸ “Ask the former generation^(A)
    and find out what their ancestors learned,