Christian Standard Bible
Job 8:8
8For ask the previous generation, and pay attention to what their ancestors discovered,
Job 8:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- New International Version (NIV)“Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
Context of Job 8:8
6if you are pure and upright, then he will move even now on your behalf and restore the home where your righteousness dwells. 7Then, even if your beginnings were modest, your final days will be full of prosperity. For ask the previous generation, and pay attention to what their ancestors discovered, 9since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow. 10Will they not teach you and tell you and speak from their understanding?
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כִּֽי־שְׁאַל־נָ֭א לְדֹ֣ר רִישׁ֑וֹן וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן לְחֵ֣קֶר אֲבוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:8
- Job 12:12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
- Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us— older than your father.
- Job 32:6So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite replied: I am young in years, while you are old; therefore I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.
- Deuteronomy 4:32“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?
- Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years of past generations. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will teach you.
- Psalms 44:1God, we have heard with our ears — our ancestors have told us — the work you accomplished in their days, in days long ago:
- Psalms 78:3things we have heard and known and that our ancestors have passed down to us.
- Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living can thank you, as I do today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.
- Romans 15:4For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
Commentaries on Job 8:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Inquire - of the former age - רישון לדור ledor rishon, of the first age; of the patriarchs; the first generation of men that dwelt upon the earth: not of the age that was just past, as Mr. Peters and several others have imagined, in order to keep up the presumption of Job's high antiquity. Bildad most evidently refers to an antiquity exceedingly remote.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8For inquire thee of the former age - That is, attend to the results of observation. Ask the generations which have passed, and who in their poems and proverbs have left the records of their experience. The sentiment which Bildad proposes to confirm by this appeal is, that though the wicked should for a time flourish, yet they would be cut off, and that the righteous, though they may be for a time afflicted, yet if they seek God, they will ultimately…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10Bildad argued for traditional wisdom by referring to ancient traditions and history (Deuteronomy 4:32; Jeremiah 18:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-98-9. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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