Job 8 · Verse 7

Job 8:7

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Job 8:7, King James Version

Job 8:7 in other translations

BSBThough your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
WEBThough your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
ASVAnd though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
YLTAnd thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
DARBYAnd though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
BBEAnd though your start was small, your end will be very great.
WebsterThough thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

What does Job 8:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. thy beginning--the beginning of thy new happiness after restoration. latter end--(Job 42:12; Pr 23:18).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 Though 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 8:1-7

Job spake much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are rebuked, as if they were evil-doers. Even in disputes on religion, it is too common to treat others with sharpness, and their arguments with contempt. Bildad's discourse shows that he had not a favourable opinion of Job's…

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Job 8:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהָיָ֣הve.ha.Yahand it will beH1961
רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣re.shi.te.Khabeginning yourH7225
מִצְעָ֑רmitz.'Ara small thingH4705
וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ve.'a.cha.ri.te.khaand future yourH319
יִשְׂגֶּ֥הyis.Gehit will growH7685
מְאֹֽד\׃me.'OdexceedinglyH3966

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Cross references for Job 8:7

  • 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. He had also seven sons and three daughters.

  • Matthew 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: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

  • Proverbs 19:20

    Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

  • Zechariah 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.

  • Proverbs 4:18

    But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

  • Zechariah 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.

  • Matthew 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.

  • Deuteronomy 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;

  • 2 Peter 2:20

    For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thy beginning.
42:12,13; Pr 4:18; Zec 4:10; Mt 13:12,31,32
thy latter.
De 8:16; Pr 19:20; Zec 14:7; 2Pe 2:20

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Context

  • Job 8:6

    If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

  • Job 8:7

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

  • Job 8:8

    For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

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Job 8:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y tu principio habrá sido pequeño, y tu postrimería acrecerá en gran manera.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ton commencement aura été petit, mais ta fin sera très grande.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und dein Anfang wird gering erscheinen, aber dein Ende sehr groß werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
in tantum ut si priora tua fuerint parva, et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis.