Job 8:7
So shall thy beginning appear small,—when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
Cross References
Job 5:11Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
Job 42:12And, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning,—and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, receive correction, that thou mayest be wise in thine after-life.
Zechariah 14:7And it shall be a day by itself, The same, shall be known unto Yahweh—Not day, nor night,—But it shall come to pass, that, at evening time, there shall be light.
Matthew 13:31Another parable, put he before them, saying—The kingdom of the heavens is like unto, 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 →