Job 8:7

And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

In Context

6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —

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Cross References

Job 5:11So that He setteth up on high those that are low, and those that mourn are exalted to safety.

Job 42:12So 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 mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Zechariah 14:7And there shall be one day which shall be known as the LORD'S, not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there 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 →

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