Job 8:7
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
Cross References
Job 5:11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Zechariah 14:7It will be a unique day which is known to the LORD—not day, and not night; but it will come to pass that at evening time there will be light.
Matthew 13:31He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and 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 →