Job 8:5-8

⁵If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

⁶If thou wert pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

⁷And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

⁸For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —