Commento su Giobbe 32:7

Elihu explains that, hitherto, he had believed that the fundamentals of wisdom were sense-perception and empirical investigation, both of which require time and experience. Hence, he had assumed that old people are wiser than the young since they have lived longer and have had more experiences. However, he now realized that the fundamentals of wisdom,¹⁷Malbim understands the term 'חכמה - wisdom' as encompassing 'all the ways of Providence that involve good and bad; it cannot be acquired through human intellect, only by grace from God'. Elsewhere (glosses on Proverbs 1:2) he defines the term as: 'to know all aspects of all those things...that involve opposites, such as cruelty and mercy, pride and humility, arrogance and shame, eating and fasting, holiness and uncleanliness...and everything that is designated good or bad...and it is a general rule that the ways of wisdom cannot be understood by man from himself...they are received from God alone...' like the Forms of Plato’s philosophy, are embedded in man’s soul, an inheritance from its Divine Source. They are present in the young as well as in the old and so wisdom is not, as he had previously thought, the exclusive possession of the elderly.