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Job 8:8

New Century Version

“Ask old people; find out what their ancestors learned,

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King Rehoboam asked the elders who had advised Solomon during his lifetime, “How do you think I should answer these people?”

Older people are wise, and long life brings understanding.

“Now my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.

Old people with gray hair are on our side; they are even older than your father.

These are things wise men have told; their ancestors told them, and they have hidden nothing.

“You know how it has been for a long time, ever since people were first put on the earth.

God, we have heard about you. Our ancestors told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.

The people who are alive are the ones who praise you. They praise you as I praise you today. A father should tell his children that you provide help.

Elders, listen to this message. Listen to me, all you who live in the land. Nothing like this has ever happened during your lifetime or during your ancestors’ lifetimes.

Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us. The Scriptures give us patience and encouragement so that we can have hope.

The things that happened to those people are examples. They were written down to teach us, because we live in a time when all these things of the past have reached their goal.

Remember the old days. Think of the years already passed. Ask your father and he will tell you; ask your elders and they will inform you.

Nothing like this has ever happened before! Look at the past, long before you were even born. Go all the way back to when God made humans on the earth, and look from one end of heaven to the other. Nothing like this has ever been heard of!




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