Job 8:7
Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
Cross References
Job 5:11Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
Job 42:12And the 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 asses.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.
Zechariah 14:7And there shall be one day, which is known to the Lord, not day nor night : and in the time of the evening there shall be light.
Matthew 13:31Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to 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 →