Job 8:8
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
World English Bible Updated
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 beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
Job 12:12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
Job 32:6Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old. Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.
Psalms 78:3which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Romans 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through 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 →