Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it:
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; Until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
I will shew 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,