Job 8:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Job 42:12-13 : 12 So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
  • Zech 4:10 : 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.
  • Matt 13:31-32 : 31 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.
  • Deut 8:16 : 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:
  • Zech 14:7 : 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.
  • Matt 13:12 : 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.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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

  • Job 8:5-6
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    5If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

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

  • 11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.

  • Job 11:17-18
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    17And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.

    18And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; Yea, thou shalt search [about thee], and shalt take thy rest in safety.

  • 22The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

    8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

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    20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

    21[ Doubtless], thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!

  • 25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

  • 19And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, O Lord Jehovah!

  • 13and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

  • 8Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.

  • 19Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.

  • 14Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.

  • 23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

  • 21Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and comfort me.

  • 18For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

  • 5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

  • 13But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, and shalt stand in thy lot, at the end of the days.

  • 22it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

  • 11Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

  • 8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall by thy rearward.

  • 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:

  • 21An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

  • 17And this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; but thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Jehovah God.

  • 11And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

  • 8Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

  • 6Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

  • 10If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

  • 8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; [and] the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

  • 13And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:

  • 2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

  • 15Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

  • 15Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

  • 19thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

  • 28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways.

  • 11In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

  • 9And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;

  • 21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

  • 18But thou shalt remember Jehovah thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as at this day.

  • 2But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, [ from everlasting.

  • 17And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and [thy] children shall come again to their own border.

  • 2His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed.

  • 11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!

  • 8And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

  • 6And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

  • 19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.