Job 32:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Great men are not always wise - This is a true saying, which the experience of every age and every country increasingly verifies. And it is most certain that, in the case before us, the aged did not understand judgment; they had a great many wise and good sayings, which they had collected, but showed neither wisdom nor discretion in applying them.