Job 8:7
And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
Cross References
Job 5:11Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.
Job 42:12And Jehovah 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-asses.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Zechariah 14:7And it shall be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day, and not night; and it shall come to pass, at eventide it shall be light.
Matthew 13:31Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens 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 →