Job 8:8

New English Translation

“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:6

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

Job 12:12

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Job 13:1

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

Job 15:10

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Job 15:18

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

Job 20:4

“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

Psalm 44:1

O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.

Isaiah 38:19

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

Joel 1:2

Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

Romans 15:4

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.