Job 8:7
And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers,
Cross References
Job 5:11To set the low on a high place, || And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
Job 42:12And YHWH has blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he has fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and one thousand pairs of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel and receive instruction, || So that you are wise in your latter end.
Zechariah 14:7And there has been one day, || It is known to YHWH, not day nor night, || And it has been at evening-time—there is light.
Matthew 13:31Another allegory He set before them, saying, “The kingdom of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, 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 →