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Job Chapter 8 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Job 8:8

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
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BBE Job 8:8

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:
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DARBY Job 8:8

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
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KJV Job 8:8

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
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WBT Job 8:8

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
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WEB Job 8:8

"Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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YLT Job 8:8

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - For inquire... of the former age. Put the matter to the test of experience - not the short-lived experience of living men, but the treasure of experience which has been handed down from generation to generation since the remotest times, and which is embodied in proverbs - the expression of the concentrated wisdom of antiquity. Search out and see what has in former ages been thought concerning prosperous men, like thyself, when suddenly cast down and afflicted. And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers. Go back, i.e., to the past age, but do not stop there - pursue thy researches further and further to their remote ancestors. Bildad implies that the records of these remote times have been, in some way or other, preserved, either in writings or by oral tradition. Writing was certainly known in Egypt and Babylonia from a time anterior to Abraham, and to the Hittites at a date not very much later. Books of advice and instruction embodied in proverbs, or moral precepts, were among the earliest, in Egypt certainly. See the "Instructions of Amen-em-hat." in the 'Records of the Past,' vol. if. pp. 11-16, and the 'Proverbs of Aphobis,' published by the Revelation Dunbar Heath. Bildad's speech is thought to indicate "special familiarity with Egypt."

Ellicott's Commentary