7 Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
7 Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
7 Read up on what happened before you were born; dig into the past, understand your roots. Ask your parents what it was like before you were born; ask the old-ones, they'll tell you a thing or two.
7 "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:
7 Remember the days of long ago; think about the generations past. Ask your father, and he will inform you. Inquire of your elders, and they will tell you.
7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
7 I thought, 'Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.'
7 I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'
7 I kept thinking, 'Experience will tell. The longer you live, the wiser you become.'
7 I said, 'Age should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
7 I thought, 'Those who are older should speak, for wisdom comes with age.'
(Read Job 32:6-14)
Elihu professes to speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and corrects both parties. He allowed that those who had the longest experience should speak first. But God gives wisdom as he pleases; this encouraged him to state his opinion. By attention to the word of God, and dependence upon the Holy Spirit, young men may become wiser than the aged; but this wisdom will render them swift to hear, slow to speak, and disposed to give others a patient hearing.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:7
Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:7-14
(Read Deuteronomy 32:7-14)
Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upon sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In verses 13,14, are emblems of the conquest believers have over their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, in and through Christ. Also of their safety and triumph in him; of their happy frames of soul, when they are above the world, and the things of it. This will be the blessed case of spiritual Israel in every sense in the latter day.