Getting error when running Oozie CLI

We get the following error when launching Oozie from the command line.

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.ClassFormatError: org.apache.oozie.cli.OozieCLI (unrecognized class file version)
at java.lang.VMClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.10)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.10)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.10)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.10)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.10)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.10)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.10)