New Revised Standard Version
I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Contemporary English Version
I once believed age was the source of wisdom;

New American Bible
I thought, days should speak, and many years teach wisdom!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

Job 8:8-10 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: . . .

Job 12:12 In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.

1 Kings 12:6-8 King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people? . . .

Psalm 34:11,12 Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. . . .

Proverbs 1:1-4 To know wisdom, and instruction: . . .

Proverbs 16:31 Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Hebrews 5:12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.