Job 8:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Inquire - of the former age - לדור רישון ledor rishon, of the first age; of the patriarchs; the first generation of men that dwelt upon the earth: not of the age that was just past, as Mr. Peters and several others have imagined, in order to keep up the presumption of Job's high antiquity. Bildad most evidently refers to an antiquity exceedingly remote.