Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“Though your beginning was insignificant,
Yet your end will increase greatly.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Then, even if your beginnings were modest,
your final days will be full of prosperity.

International Standard Version

Your beginning may be small, but later years will be very great.

A Conservative Version

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

Amplified


“Though your beginning was insignificant,
Yet your end will greatly increase.

Bible in Basic English

And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great.

Modern King James verseion

And if your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Insomuch, that wherein soever thou hadst little afore, thou shouldest now have great abundance.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

So shall thy beginning appear small, - when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראשׁית 
Re'shiyth 
Usage: 51

מצער 
Mits`ar 
Usage: 5

אחרית 
'achariyth 
Usage: 61

Context Readings

Bildad's First Response To Job

6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase. 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:


Cross References

Zechariah 4:10

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.

Matthew 13:31-32

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:

Deuteronomy 8:16

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:

Job 42:12-13

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.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 19:20

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Zechariah 14:7

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.

Matthew 13:12

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.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

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