7Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.


In Context

4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

5 But if you will look to God 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 rightful place.

7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

8 "Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,

9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 8:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.