For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:

shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

He changes the lips of the trusty, and He knows the understanding of the elders.

And Elihu the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you are older, therefore I kept silent, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages; ask your father, and he shall relate to you, [ask] your elders, and they shall tell you.

Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.