Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

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

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.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard 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 you are clean and upright, surely then, he'll act on your behalf and restore your rightful place. 7 Your beginning may be small, but later years will be very great. 8 "Inquire of the previous generation, won't you please? Consider what their forefathers searched out.


Cross References

Zechariah 4:10

For who has despised the time of insignificant things? They will rejoice to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven lights represent the eyes of the LORD, which are looking throughout all of the earth."

Matthew 13:31-32

He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom from heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.

Deuteronomy 8:16

and fed you in the desert with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, to humble and test you so that things go well with you later.

Job 42:12-13

The LORD blessed Job during the latter part of his life more than the former, since he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that grows brighter until the full light of day.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and you'll be wise for the rest of your life.

Zechariah 14:7

It will be a unique day, known only to the LORD neither daytime nor nighttime and it will come about at twilight there will be light!

Matthew 13:12

because to anyone who has something, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who doesn't have anything, even what he has will be taken away from him.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

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