Isn't it wise to ask the generations before us?

Bildad says, "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers" (8:8). Other Scripture says something close: "Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you" (Deuteronomy 32:7). In this book the speakers come back to it. Job says, "With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding" (12:12). Eliphaz says, "With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father" (15:10). And Elihu says, "It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice" (32:9). Bildad himself says, "we are but of yesterday, and know nothing" (8:9). The book gives no word of its own on the fathers' learning. What it says of Bildad's words is the LORD's word to the three friends (42:7), and it doesn't say which words it means.