The Pulpit Commentary on Job 20:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth? These words scarcely "imply cognizance of the record (of the creation of man) in Genesis," as Canon Cook suggests; but they do imply belief in a creation of man, not an evolution; and in the existence of a continuous tradition, extending from that time to Job's.

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