And though thy beginning [a]be small, yet thy latter end shall greatly increase.

[b]Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to search of their fathers.

(For we are but [c]of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our days upon earth are but a shadow)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:7 Though the beginnings be not so pleasant as thou wouldest desire, yet in the end thou shalt have sufficient occasion to content thyself.
  2. Job 8:8 He willeth Job to examine all antiquity, and he shall find it true which he here saith.
  3. Job 8:9 Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the examples of them that went before us.

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