KJV King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
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Job 8:7
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
WEB World English Bible
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
ASV American Standard Version
And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
Surrounding context — Job 8
4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
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.
7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For inquire, 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:)
10 Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
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Job 42:12-13So 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.Matthew 13:31-32Another 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:Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.Zechariah 4:10For 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 4:18But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.Zechariah 14:7But 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 13:12For 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 8:16Who 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 2:20For 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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