New King James Version
Job 8:7
7Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.
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 Living Translation (NLT)And though you started with little, you will end with much.
Context of Job 8:7
5If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty, 6If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place. Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly. 8“For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; 9For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:7 word by word
וְהָיָ֣ה רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣ מִצְעָ֑ר וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ יִשְׂגֶּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:7
- Job 42:12Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
- Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
- Zechariah 4:10For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”
- Matthew 13:12For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
- Deuteronomy 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—
- Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter days.
- Zechariah 14:7It shall be one day Which is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.
- 2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
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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