Job 8:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 42:12-13 : 12 So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
  • Zech 4:10 : 10 For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes will joyfully look on the tin tablet in Zerubbabel’s hand.(These are the eyes of the LORD, which constantly range across the whole earth.)
  • Matt 13:31-32 : 31 The Parable of the Mustard Seed He gave them another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches.”
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
  • Zech 14:7 : 7 It will happen in one day(a day known to the LORD); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.
  • Matt 13:12 : 12 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

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