Job 8:7

⁵ But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

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

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

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

⁹ For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
KJV: Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
WEB: Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
ASV: And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
DARBY: And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
BLB: And your beginning was small, and your end will greatly increase.

ÅB: og din forrige lykke vil bli ringe mot din senere lykke, for den skal være overmåte stor.
OTB: Selv om dine begynnelser virket små,
vil din fremtid blomstre stort.
B1930: og din forrige lykke vil bli ringe mot din senere lykke, for den skal være overmåte stor.

Job 42:12–13
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.
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Matthew 13:31–32
He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
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Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
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Zechariah 4:10
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.”
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Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
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Zechariah 14:7
It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
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Matthew 13:12
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.
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Deuteronomy 8:16
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.
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