Job 8:7

Job chapter 8 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

v.6If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

v.7This passage

v.8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Matthew 13:12
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which 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:
Zechariah 14:7
but it shall be one day which is known unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.
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 these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.