“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
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