Job 8:7 ASV

⁵  If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

⁶  If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

⁷  And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

⁸  For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:

⁹  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);