Tree of Life Version
Job 8:8
8Now ask the previous generation; consider the findings of their fathers;
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, even now He will awaken for you and restore your righteous abode. 7And though your beginning was small, your future would flourish. Now ask the previous generation; consider the findings of their fathers; 9for we were born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow. 10Will they not teach you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their hearts?
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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 12:12Is not wisdom with the aged and understanding bring long life?
- Job 15:10Both gray-haired and aged are with us, men even older than your father.
- Job 32:6Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite responded and said: “I am young in days and you are old; that is why I was timid and dared not to tell what I know.
- Deuteronomy 4:32“Indeed, ask now about the former days that were before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the sky to the other. Has there ever been such a great thing as this, or has anything like it been heard?
- Deuteronomy 32:7“Remember the days of antiquity, understand the years across generations. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will say to you.
- Psalms 44:1For the music director, a psalm of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song.
- Psalms 78:3which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Isaiah 38:19The living, the living—they praise You— as I do today. A father makes Your faithfulness known to his children.
- Romans 15:4For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, so that through patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as an example, and it was written down as a warning to us—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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