Job 8:7 “Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.”

Job 8:7

Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

World English Bible

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

American Standard Version

And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

Geneva Bible 1599

And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.

Darby Translation

And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.

Young's Literal Translation

And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

Bible in Basic English

And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

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Cross references

“thy beginning”

Proverbs 4:18 Zechariah 4:10 Matthew 13:12 Job 42:12 Job 42:13 Matthew 13:31

Proverbs 4:18 · BSB

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Zechariah 4:10 · BSB

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

Matthew 13:12 · BSB

Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Job 42:12 · BSB

So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Job 42:13 · BSB

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

Matthew 13:31 · BSB

He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.

“thy latter”

Proverbs 19:20 Zechariah 14:7 Deuteronomy 8:16 2 Peter 2:20

Proverbs 19:20 · BSB

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Zechariah 14:7 · BSB

It will be a unique day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

Deuteronomy 8:16 · BSB

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

2 Peter 2:20 · BSB

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

8Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

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