8For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:


In Context

5 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

6 If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.

8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

10 Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

Job 8:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:8"Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:8|Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:8For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,