Job 8:7
Though then thy beginning should be small, 1 Yet thy end should be unspeakably great. 1
Updated 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, 1 And search diligently among the race of our fathers 1
Cross References
Job 5:11Who exalts the lowly, 1 And raises up them that are lost: 1
Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: 1 And his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, 1 Six thousand camels, 1 A thousand yoke of oxen, 1 A thousand she-asses of the pastures. 1
Proverbs 19:20Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, 1 That thou mayest be wise at thy latter end. 1
Zechariah 14:7and there shall be for one day cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the Lord, and it shall not be day nor night: but toward 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 →