Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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.

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 pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. 7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great. 8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

Cross References

Zechariah 4:10

For who trampled on the day of small things, They have rejoiced, And seen the tin weight in the hand of Zerubbabel, These seven are the eyes of Jehovah, They are going to and fro in all the land.'

Matthew 13:31-32

Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,

Deuteronomy 8:16

who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),

Job 42:12-13

And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Proverbs 4:18

And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

Proverbs 19:20

Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

Zechariah 14:7

And there hath been one day, It is known to Jehovah, not day nor night, And it hath been at evening-time -- there is light.

Matthew 13:12

for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

2 Peter 2:20

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

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