No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Job 8:9.
Job 8:9-10
He is telling Job, in effect, "Look back into history and there is a lot of wisdom there, and if you would just do that, why, you would find answers to your situation, because the ancients were wise and they had all this experience." What Bildad is saying is basically true. The ancients that he was talking about there, those people lived for hundreds of years, and they had a lot of time to learn the lessons of life. And there was a lot of wisdom in what those people possessed. I am sure that they passed much of that on to their descendants. He is telling Job, "Let's look back there and we will find answers to your dilemma." It is in verse 9 that he comes up with this thing that is so interesting.
Brethren, we are but of yesterday. Where did you get what made you what you are? Are you not the sum total of the experiences that you have had in the past? Every one of us is that. Did the past not teach you, and you then are what the past has taught you?
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