which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.