New English Translation
Job 8:7
7Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.
Job 8:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- New International Version (NIV)Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.
Context of Job 8:7
5But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty, 6if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode. Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish. 8“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors; 9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:7 word by word
וְהָיָ֣ה רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣ מִצְעָ֑ר וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ יִשְׂגֶּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 8:7
- Job 42:12So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Proverbs 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
- Zechariah 4:10For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes will joyfully look on the tin tablet in Zerubbabel’s hand. (These are the eyes of the Lord, which constantly range across the whole earth.)
- Matthew 13:12For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
- Deuteronomy 8:16fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
- Proverbs 19:20Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
- Zechariah 14:7It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.
- 2 Peter 2:20For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
Commentaries on Job 8:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Though thy beginning was small - Thy former state, compared to that into which God would have brought thee, would be small; for to show his respect for thy piety, because thou hadst, through thy faithful attachment to him, suffered the loss of all things, he would have greatly multiplied thy former prosperity, so that thou shouldest now have vastly more than thou didst ever before possess.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Though thy beginning was small - On the supposition that the children of Job had been cut off, his family now was small. Yet Bildad says, that if he were to begin life again, even with so small a family, and in such depressed and trying circumstances, if he were a righteous man he might hope for returning prosperity. Yet thy latter end - From this, it is evident that Job was not now regarded as an old man. He would still have the prospect of living many…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7your latter days will flourish: Bildad's words were more accurate than he realized (42:12; compare 5:19–26).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. thy beginning--the beginning of thy new happiness after restoration. latter end--(Job 42:12; Pr 23:18).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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