Job 8:7
Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
Cross References
Job 5:11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
Job 42:12So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
Zechariah 14:7It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
Matthew 13:31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted 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 →