Job 20:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
  • Gen 9:1-3 : 1 God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. 3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 “For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors; 9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Job 15:10 : 10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.
  • Job 32:7 : 7 I said to myself,‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.

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