A. We must not assume that age alone always makes us wiser:

JOB 32:9. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

PSA 119:100. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

B. Without God the wisdom of the aged comes to nought:

JOB 12:13. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

JOB 12:20. He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

C. Caution against becoming too set in our ways:

ECC 4:13. Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

D. Caution against losing conviction in old age:

1KI 11:4. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

E. Unwisely comparing former glories to the present:

ECC 7:10. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

EZR 3:11. And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

EZR 3:12. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: