Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.
Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.
I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.