'Former Days' in the Bible

For ask, I pray you, of the former days which were before thee, even from the day when God created man upon the earth, yea from one end of the heavens even to the other end of the heavens, - whether aught was ever brought to pass, like this great thing, or was ever heard of like it:

But, I, stayed in the mountain according to the former days, forty days and forty nights, - and Yahweh hearkened unto me at that time also, Yahweh was not willing a to destroy thee.

Do not say, What hath happened, that, the former days, were better than these? for, not wisely, askest thou concerning this.

But, now, not as in the former days, am I to this remnant of the people, - Declareth Yahweh of hosts;

But be calling to mind the former days, in which, once ye were illuminated, a great combat of sufferings, ye endured; -