Job 8:8

In 11 translations

BSB

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

KJV

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

WEB

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

ASV

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

LSV

For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers,

YLT

For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

DBY

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;

DRC

For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

GNV

Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.

JPS

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —

LXXE

For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:

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WLC

כִּֽי־שְׁאַל־נָ֭א לְדֹ֣ר רִישׁ֑וֹן וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן לְחֵ֣קֶר אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην, ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων·

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• Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
• Job 15:18what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
• 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?
• Romans 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
• 1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
• Psalms 78:3–4that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us. We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
• Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
• Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
• Job 12:12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
• Job 32:6–7So 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. I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.
• Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

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