Job 8:8
For enquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
Updated King James 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
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should 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 you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
Job 12:12With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 15:10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than your father.
Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and all of you are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show you mine opinion.
Psalms 78:3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Romans 15:4For whatsoever things were written in old times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures 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 →