Job 8:8

New International Reader's Version

“Find out what our parents taught. Discover what those who lived before them learned.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam asked the elders for advice. They had served his father Solomon while he was still living. Rehoboam asked them, “What advice can you give me? How should I answer these people?”

Job 12:12

Old people are wise. Those who live a long time have understanding.

Job 13:1

“My eyes have seen everything God has done. My ears have heard it and understood it.

Job 15:10

People who are old and gray are on our side. And they are even older than your parents!

Job 15:18

I’ll tell you what those who are wise have said. They don’t hide anything they’ve received from their people of long ago.

Job 20:4

“I’m sure you must know how things have always been. They’ve been that way ever since human beings were placed on this earth.

Psalm 44:1

God, we have heard what you did. Those who came before us have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.

Isaiah 38:19

It is those who are alive who praise you. And that’s what I’m doing today. Parents tell their children about how faithful you are.

Joel 1:2

Elders, listen to me. Pay attention, all you who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life? Did it ever happen to your people who lived long ago?

Romans 15:4

Everything written in the past was written to teach us. The Scriptures give us strength to go on. They encourage us and give us hope.

1 Corinthians 10:11

Those things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us. That’s because we are living at the time when God’s work is being completed.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of long ago. Think about what the Lord did through those many years. Ask your father. He will tell you. Ask your elders. They’ll explain it to you.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Ask now about the days of long ago. Find out what happened long before your time. Ask about what has happened since the time God created human beings on the earth. Ask from one end of the world to the other. Has anything as great as this ever happened? Has anything like it ever been heard of?