Job 8:7

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Though your beginning was small, your future will be greatly increased.

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  • Job 42:12-13 : 12 The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 The path of the righteous is like the morning light, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.
  • Zech 4:10 : 10 For who has despised the day of small beginnings? These seven rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the LORD roaming throughout the whole earth.
  • Matt 13:31-32 : 31 He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.' 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.
  • Zech 14:7 : 7 It will be a unique day—known only to the Lord—not day nor night, but at evening time there will be light.
  • Matt 13:12 : 12 For whoever has, more will be given to them, and they will have abundance. But whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken away from them.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to advice and accept discipline, so that you may become wise in the future.

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  • 8Ask the previous generation, and give thought to the findings of their ancestors;

  • Job 8:5-6
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    5But if you earnestly seek God and plead for mercy from the Almighty,

    6if you are pure and upright, surely now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous dwelling.

  • 11For through me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

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    17Your life will shine brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

    18You will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and rest safely.

  • 22The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest one a mighty nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail.

    8Even if its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

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    20that you may take it to its boundary and recognize the paths to its home?

    21Surely you know, since you were already born, and the number of your days is great!

  • 25You will know that your descendants will be many, and your offspring will be like the grass of the earth.

  • 19And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a long time to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!

  • 13When your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and all that you have has multiplied,

  • 8Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice.

  • 19Surely this is the joy of their way, and out of the dust, others will spring up.

  • 14May the Lord increase you and your children.

  • 23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice far from your tent,

  • 21You will increase my honor and comfort me once more.

  • 18For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • 5Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

  • 13But as for you, go your way until the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.

  • 22You will be driven away from people, and you will live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass over you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to whomever He chooses.

  • 11Are the consolations of God too trivial for you, or a word spoken gently with you?

  • 8Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

  • 16He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.

  • 21An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

  • 17And as if this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You have regarded me as though I were of high rank, LORD God.

  • 11The LORD will make you prosper abundantly in the fruit of your womb, in the offspring of your livestock, and in the produce of your land on the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

  • 8The LORD will command the blessing on your storehouses and on all you set your hand to do. He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • 6Isn't your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

  • 10If you falter in a day of trouble, your strength is small.

  • 8The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.

  • 13The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

  • 2Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings—do not hold back! Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

  • 15then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will stand firm and not fear.

  • 15You have increased the nation, LORD; You have increased the nation. You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

  • 19Your descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and your offspring like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before Me.

  • 28Whatever you decide will succeed, and light will shine on your ways.

  • 11Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • 9The LORD your God will make you successful in all the work of your hands—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. The LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your ancestors,

  • 21Be reconciled with God now, and at peace with Him; this will bring good to you.

  • 18But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the power to gain wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

  • 2Therefore, he will give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth, and the rest of his brothers will return to join the children of Israel.

  • 17There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

  • 2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

  • 11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised.

  • 8And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your ancestors, and gives you the entire land He promised to give them,

  • 6and that He would declare to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom is double what you imagine. Know then that God exacts less of you than your guilt deserves.

  • 19Out of them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will increase their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be despised.