Job 8:7
And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
Cross References
Job 5:11And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.
Job 42:12So the Lord blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had foureteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses.
Proverbs 19:20Heare counsell and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter ende.
Zechariah 14:7And there shall bee a day (it is knowen to the Lord) neither day nor night, but about the euening time it shall be light.
Matthew 13:31Another parable he put foorth vnto them, saying, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a graine of mustard seede, which a man taketh and soweth in his fielde:
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 →