⁷ Remember the days of old;^(A)
    consider the generations long past.^(B)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
    your elders, and they will explain to you.^(C)

¹⁸ what the wise have declared,
    hiding nothing received from their ancestors^(A)

⁴ “Surely you know how it has been from of old,^(A)
    ever since mankind^[a] was placed on the earth,