Job 8:8
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
In Context
7And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
9(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been [anything] as this great thing is, or has been he
Job 12:12With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion.
Psalms 78:3which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Romans 15:4For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:2-8
The Address of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the… Read the whole commentary →