Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.


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Joel 1 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Ecclesiastes 12 1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Isaiah 43 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Hebrews 10 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Job 8 8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Deuteronomy 4 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Luke 5 39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Job 22 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Psalms 90 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psalms 44 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Jeremiah 3 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Leviticus 26 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
Job 20 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Ecclesiastes 3 15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Job 10 5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
2 Corinthians 12 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
Psalms 143 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Habakkuk 2 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Mark 13 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Job 8 9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:
1 John 2 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
Ephesians 4 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Deuteronomy 32 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Zechariah 8 11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 22 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Psalms 79 8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Jude 1 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Job 33 32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Zechariah 7 7 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
Joel 2 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Ephesians 4 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Psalms 90 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Jeremiah 31 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Zechariah 1 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
Philippians 4 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
Malachi 3 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Psalms 77 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Jeremiah 5 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
1 Peter 4 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Habakkuk 1 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Malachi 3 4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
Isaiah 32 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Job 13 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Obadiah 1 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Luke 17 26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Jeremiah 8 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Zechariah 8 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
Ezra 4 19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
Amos 5 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Joshua 24 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.