Job 8:8-10

Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

8 "For k inquire, please, of bygone ages,
and consider what l the fathers have searched out.
9 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are m a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:32
    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.
    Deuteronomy 32:7
    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.
    Job 15:18
    (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers.
  2. Cross References
    Job 15:18
    (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers.
  3. Cross References
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    Job 17:7
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    1 Chronicles 29:15
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    Psalms 102:11
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    Psalms 109:23
    I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken...
    Psalms 144:4
    Man is like a breath; his days are like a passi...
    Ecclesiastes 6:12
    For who knows what is good for man while he liv...
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