NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan. Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

Verse 7. - Though thy beginning was small; rather, were small. Bildad does not refer to the past, but to the present. Though, if God were now to set to work to prosper Job, his beginning would be slender indeed, yet what the outcome might be none could know. God might prosper him greatly. Yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish. This phrase reflects the humble origins of Job, a man who was once prosperous but faced severe trials. It echoes the biblical theme of God lifting the humble, as seen in the lives of figures like David, who started as a shepherd before becoming king (1 Samuel 16).

Verse Job 8:7. 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 ...

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Job 8:7 (KJV) "Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase." In this verse, Job's friend Bildad offers words of comfort and hope to Job, who has suffered great loss and is experiencing immense physical and emotional pain.

Job 8:7 In-Context 5 But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty, 6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.

“Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly.

Job 8:7 Context. 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.

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