(what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,
“For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
“I will show you, hear me; and 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, since man was placed upon earth,