Job 8:7
so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,
Cross References
Job 5:11He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.
Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.
Zechariah 14:7And there will be one day, which is known to the Lord, not day and not night. And in the time of the evening, there will be light.
Matthew 13:31He proposed another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and 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 →