Quotes about Youth
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
— Job 8:12
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
— Job 13:26
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
— Job 20:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
— Job 21:11
the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
— Job 29:8
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
— Job 30:1
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
— Job 31:18
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.
— Job 32:4
So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.
— Job 32:6
It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
— Job 32:9
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
— Job 36:14
Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
— Job 39:4