Job 8:7
And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
In Context
8For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to 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 Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.
Zechariah 14:7And there hath been one day, It is known to Jehovah, not day nor night, And it hath been at evening-time — there is light.
Matthew 13:31Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow 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 →