Job 8:7
And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
Cross References
Job 5:11To set up the lowly on high, that those who mourn may rise high to happiness;
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 accept correction, in order that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Zechariah 14:7But it shall be one particular day which shall indeed be known as the Lord's, neither day nor 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 →