Job 8:7
Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:
Cross References
Job 5:11who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.
Proverbs 19:20Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, that thou mayest be wise at thy latter end.
Zechariah 14:7and there shall be for one day + 14:7 Alex. ψύχος, cold, probably the right reading.cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the Lord, and it shall not be day nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.
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 →