Job 20:4
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This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

thou not

Job 8:8,9 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: . . .

Job 15:10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.

Job 32:7 For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

man

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 9:1-3 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth. . . .

Psalm 115:16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me. 4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.…
Cross References
Job 8:8
For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

Job 15:18
Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.

Lexicon
Do you not know
יָ֭דַעְתָּ (yā·ḏa‘·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

that from
מִנִּי־ (min·nî-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

antiquity,
עַ֑ד (‘aḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5703: A, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity

since
מִנִּ֤י (min·nî)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

man
אָדָ֣ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

was placed
שִׂ֖ים (śîm)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

on
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the earth,
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,Know you not this of old, since man was placed on earth,

Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

Hast thou not known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?

Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
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