Job 8:8
"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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- Job 15:18 : 18 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
- Deut 4:32 : 32 For 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 [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
- Deut 32:7 : 7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
- Job 12:12 : 12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
- Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
- Job 32:6-7 : 6 Elihu 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. 7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
- Ps 44:1 : 1 We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
- Ps 78:3-4 : 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
- Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
- Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
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4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
- Job 8:9-102 verses78%
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
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7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
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10 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.
- Job 15:8-114 verses74%
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
- Job 38:18-214 verses72%
18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
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27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."
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32 For 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 [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
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4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
- Job 10:5-62 verses71%
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
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3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
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18 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
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5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
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6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
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8 "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
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12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
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28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
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1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
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10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
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15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
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10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
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1 Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
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20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
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12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
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4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
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8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
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1 We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
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7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
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8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
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8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
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16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
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3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
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7 For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
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2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
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16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?