Job 15:18

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what sages have told and their ancestors have not hidden,

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“For inquire now of bygone generations and consider what their ancestors have found,

The living, the living, they thank you, as I do this day; fathers make known to children your faithfulness.

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to all the generations to come. Your power

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

“I will show you; listen to me; what I have seen I will declare—

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

Do you not know this from of old, ever since mortals were placed on earth,