Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

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.

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, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice. 7 And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly. 8 For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers:

Cross References

Zechariah 4:10

For who despised the day of small things? and they rejoiced, and they saw the stone of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel, these seven; they the eyes of Jehovah running to and fro in all the earth.

Matthew 13:31-32

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field:

Deuteronomy 8:16

He giving thee to eat manna in the desert which thy fathers knew not, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee to do thee good in thy lost state:

Job 42:12-13

And Jehovah blessed the latter state of Job more than his beginning: and there will be to him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

Proverbs 19:20

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.

Zechariah 14:7

And it was one day it shall be known to Jehovah, not day, and not night: and it was at the time of evening it shall be light

Matthew 13:12

For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him.

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

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