(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
“I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,