Job 8:7

And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

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In The King James Version

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

In Context

6if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

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

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Cross References

Job 5:11so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Job 42:12So LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou may be wise in thy latter end.

Zechariah 14:7But it shall be one day which is known to LORD, not day, and not night. But it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

Matthew 13:31He set forth another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard plant, which having taken, a man sowed in his field.

Matthew Henry on Job 8:2-8

The Address of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the… Read the whole commentary →

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