Job 8:8
Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
Majority Standard Bible
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
7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:32Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
Job 12:12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.
Job 32:6So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.
Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Romans 15:4For what was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and 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 →