Job 8:6
Verse 6 of 22. The 8th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.