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Job 8:7-9
Contemporary English Version

7 Your future will be brighter
    by far than your past.

Our Ancestors Were Wise

8 (A) Our ancestors were wise,
    so learn from them.
9 Our own time has been short,
like a fading shadow,
    and we know very little.

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Job 8:7-9
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7 Your beginnings will seem humble,
    so prosperous(A) will your future be.(B)

8 “Ask the former generation(C)
    and find out what their ancestors learned,
9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,(D)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.(E)

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