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Job 8:7
Job 8:7 is verse 7 of Job chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
King James Version
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
World English Bible
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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Job 8:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
6 if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
7 Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
8 Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Job 42:13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
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.”
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.
Matthew 13:32Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
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.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
Zechariah 14:7It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
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.