1 Kings 12:6-15

6Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” 7And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.” 8But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 9And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?” 10And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs. 11And now, whereas amy father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, b“Come to me again the third day.” 13And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, 14he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, c“My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” 15So the king did not listen to the people, for dit was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which ethe Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Job 12:12

12Wisdom is with fthe aged,
and understanding in length of days.

Job 15:9-10

9 gWhat do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 hBoth the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.

Job 32:4

4Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

Job 32:10

10Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
let me also declare my opinion.’
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