8"Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,
8"Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,
5 But if you will look to God and plead with the Almighty,
6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place.
7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
8 "Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,
9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
8:8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
8:8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
8:8|Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
8:8For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
8:8For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers: