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Job 8

Job 8:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For inquire
sha'al (Hebrew #7592)
a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
KJV usage: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
Pronounce: shaw-al'
Origin: or shael {shaw-ale'}
, I pray thee, of the former
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
age
dowr (Hebrew #1755)
from 1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
KJV usage: age, X evermore, generation, (n-)ever, posterity.
Pronounce: dore
Origin: or (shortened) dor {dore}
, and prepare
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
thyself to the search
cheqer (Hebrew #2714)
examination, enumeration, deliberation
KJV usage: finding out, number, (un-)search(-able, -ed, out, -ing).
Pronounce: khay'-ker
Origin: from 2713
of their fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
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Ministry on This Verse

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enquire.
Job 12:12• 12Among the aged [is] wisdom,{HR}And in length of days understanding. (Job 12:12)
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Job 15:10,18• 10Also among us[is] the hoary, and the aged,{HR}Richer in days than thy father.
 18Which wise men have declared{HR}And have not hid, from their fathers, (Job 15:10,18)
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Job 32:6‑7• 6And Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said,
 7I said, Let days speak,{HR}And the multitude of years teach wisdom. (Job 32:6‑7)
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Deut. 4:32• 32{i}For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been anything as this great thing is, or if anything hath been heard like it?{/i} (Deut. 4:32)
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Deut. 32:7• 7{i}Remember the days of old,{HR}Consider the years of generation to generation;{HR}Ask thy father, and he will show thee;{HR}Thine elders, and they will tell thee.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:7)
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Psa. 44:1• 1To the chief musician; for the sons of Korah, Maschil.{HR}O God, with our ears have we heard;{HR}Our fathers have declared unto us the work{HR}[Which] thou didst in their days, in the days of old. (Psa. 44:1)
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Psa. 78:3‑4• 3Which we have heard and known,{HR}And our fathers have told us.
 4We will not hide [them] from their sons,{HR}Telling the generations to come the praises of Jehovah,{HR}And his strength, and his wondrous works which he wrought. (Psa. 78:3‑4)
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Isa. 38:19• 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth. (Isa. 38:19)
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Rom. 15:4• 4For as many things as were written before were written for our instruction, that through endurance and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope. (Rom. 15:4)
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1 Cor. 10:11• 11Now all these things happened unto them typically, and were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have reached. (1 Cor. 10:11)
• The light of the past (vers. 8-10). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• Bildad refers not merely to his own experience as had Eliphaz, but calls upon all the gathered wisdom of the past for confirmation. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Inquire now of the former generation,{HR}And give heed to the research of their fathers