Job 8:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.”
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BSBPD
“Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 8:7 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 8:16He 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.
- Job 5:11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
- Job 42:10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
- Job 42:12So 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.
- Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
- Zechariah 4:10For 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.”
- Zechariah 14:7It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
- Matthew 13:12Whoever 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.
- Matthew 13:31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
- 2 Peter 2:20If 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.
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