Let the Young Speak

Proper youth should observe to do this exceptional things:
A Man Wise by the Spirit
Slow to Speak
Angered When God Is Belittled
Burdened to Speak the Word of God
Does Not Flatter
Increases Our Understanding of God's Ways
Finally, when a man is driven to speak by the Spirit of God (rather than by his age), he brings forth genuine theological insight and increases our understanding of God's ways.
It is not a punishment but a cure and a purification. It is not the result of God's anger but the remedy of his love.
God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings that he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from man; he keeps back his soul from the Pit and his lips from perishing by the sword.
That is the first way God speaks to man for his good.
The second is the one that applies to Job. Verse 19: "Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones."
The description of the sickness follows and how man is moved to seek God and confess all sin. Then verse 29 says, "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man, to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life." And 36:15 says, "He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity."
Wisdom comes from the Lord and can be given to the young as well as the old.
The question, therefore, is not, "Who is old?" but, "Who is full of the Spirit of wisdom?" Five things will mark these people who are stirred by the Spirit of God.
1) They will be slow to speak, eager to listen, and conscious of how much they have to learn.
2) But there comes a point when they get angry at self-justifying, God-belittling men.
3) They have a passionate love for God's truth and can find no relief until they speak it.
4) When they speak, it is not with flattering words. The Spirit has given them rest in the promises of God, and they do not need to curry anyone's favor.
5) What they say is genuine insight, and it increases our understanding of God's ways and helps us trust him even through pain.