Job 8:7

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great.

YLT

And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

DBY

And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.

DRC

Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.

GNV

And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.

JPS

And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

LXXE

Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great.

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WLC

וְהָיָ֣ה רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣ מִצְעָ֑ר וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ יִשְׂגֶּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

LXX-Br

Ἔσται οὖν τὰ μὲν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα, τὰ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα.

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• Job 42:12–13So 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. And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
• Matthew 13:31–32He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a…
• 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.”
• Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
• Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• Zechariah 14:7It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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