Job 12:12

With the ancient is wisdom -With the aged. The wordישׁישׁyâshı̂yshused here, means an old man, one gray-headed. It is used chiefly in poetry, and is commonly employed in the sense of one who is decrepit by age. It is rendered “very aged” inJob 15:10; “him that stooped for age.”2 Chronicles 36:17; “very old,”Job 32:6; and “the aged,”Job 29:8The Septuagint renders it,Ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳEnpollōchronō“in much time.” The sense is, that wisdom might be expected to be found with the man who had had a long opportunity to observe the course of events; who had conversed with a former generation, and who had had time for personal reflection.