the former days # 21_ECC_07_10 # Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 
the former days # 58_HEB_10_32 # But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; 
the former days # 38_ZEC_08_11 # But now I [will] not [be] unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.