Job 8:8

New International Version

“Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

Job 12:12

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

Job 13:1

“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 even older than your father.

Job 15:18

what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors

Job 20:4

“Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind was placed on the earth,

Psalm 44:1

We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.

Isaiah 38:19

The living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today; parents tell their children about your faithfulness.

Joel 1:2

Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

Romans 15:4

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?