Job 8:8

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⁸“Ask the former generation^(A)
and find out what their ancestors learned,

Job 15:18

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¹⁸what the wise have declared,
hiding nothing received from their ancestors^(A)

Deuteronomy 32:7

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⁷Remember the days of old;^(A)
consider the generations long past.^(B)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.^(C)

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Deuteronomy 4:32

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The Lord Is God

³²Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

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Romans 15:4

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⁴For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,^(A) so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

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1 Corinthians 10:11

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¹¹These things happened to them as examples^(A) and were written down as warnings for us,^(B) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(C)

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Isaiah 38:19

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¹⁹The living, the living—they praise^(A) you,
as I am doing today;
parents tell their children^(B)
about your faithfulness.

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Psalm 78:3-4

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³things we have heard and known,
    things our ancestors have told us.^(A)
⁴We will not hide them from their descendants;^(B)
    we will tell the next generation^(C)
the praiseworthy deeds^(D) of the Lord,
    his power, and the wonders^(E) he has done.

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Psalm 44:1

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Psalm 44^[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.^[b]

¹We have heard it with our ears,^(A) O God;
our ancestors have told us^(B)
what you did in their days,
in days long ago.^(C)

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Footnotes

Psalm 44:1 In Hebrew texts 44:1-26 is numbered 44:2-27.
Psalm 44:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

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Job 32:6-7

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⁶So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:

“I am young in years,
    and you are old;^(A)
that is why I was fearful,
    not daring to tell you what I know.
⁷I thought, ‘Age should speak;
    advanced years should teach wisdom.’^(B)

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Job 15:10

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¹⁰The gray-haired and the aged^(A) are on our side,
men even older than your father.^(B)

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Job 12:12

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¹²Is not wisdom found among the aged?^(A)
Does not long life bring understanding?^(B)

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Job 8:8

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Psalm 44:1

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Psalm 44^[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.^[b]

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Psalm 44[a]

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