which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.
Yea, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared thy strength to a generation, thy might to everyone who is to come.
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:
Know thou this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,