Job 8:7
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 habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are 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.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 42:12–13
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Read in contextMatthew 13:31–32
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Read in contextProverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Read in contextZechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Read in contextProverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Read in contextZechariah 14:7
But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Read in contextMatthew 13:12
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
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