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

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The sages of the olden time reached an age beyond those of Job's time (see on Job 42:16), and therefore could give the testimony of a fuller experience.
 
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16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.