Job 8:10
and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
In Context
9(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)
11Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:19Teach your sons to meditate on them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down or rise up.
Job 32:7For I had hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.
Proverbs 16:23The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth and add grace to his lips.
Matthew 12:35A good man offers good things from a good storehouse. And an evil man offers evil things from an evil storehouse.
Hebrews 12:1Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →