Job 8:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of the former age, i.e. of our predecessors, who had the advantage of longer life and more experience, besides more frequent revelations from God, than we have; who also will be more impartial judges of this cause than we may be thought to be. Inform thyself from them by the instructions which they left, either in word or writing, what their opinion was about the manner of God's dealings with men. Prepare thyself to the search of their fathers; do not slightly, but seriously and industriously, search the ancient records.