Job 8:7

And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

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Cross References

Job 5:11Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

Job 42:12And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Proverbs 19:20Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

Zechariah 14:7And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

Matthew 13:31He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put 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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