He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside!

you young men and young women, you elderly, along with you children!

The glory of young men is their strength, and the splendor of old men is gray hair.

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.

We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

פ (Pe) The Lord himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. They did not honor the priests; they did not show favor to the elders.

Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters.

Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says, ‘Old men and women will once more live in the plazas of Jerusalem, each one leaning on a cane because of advanced age.