Ayub 8:7

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Maka kedudukanmu yang dahulu akan kelihatan hina, tetapi kedudukanmu yang kemudian akan menjadi sangat mulia.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Maka kedudukanmu yang dahulu akan kelihatan hina, tetapi kedudukanmu yang kemudian akan menjadi sangat mulia.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau permulaanmu kecil sekalipun, maka pada kesudahan engkau akan berkelimpahan kebesaran.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy beginning: Job 42:12, Job 42:13, Proverbs 4:18, Zechariah 4:10, Matthew 13:12, Matthew 13:31, Matthew 13:32

thy latter: Deuteronomy 8:16, Proverbs 19:20, Zechariah 14:7, 2 Peter 2:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:10 - my staff 2 Samuel 3:1 - David waxed 1 Kings 18:44 - a little cloud Ezra 3:12 - when the foundation Job 42:10 - the Lord Psalms 72:16 - There Psalms 107:41 - setteth Proverbs 3:33 - he blesseth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Though thy beginning was small,.... When, he first set out in the world; and which though it greatly increased, and he was the greatest man in all the east, yet Bildad suggests, should he behave well, that was comparatively small to what it would be with him hereafter; and which was fact, for he had double of what he before enjoyed; so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "and thy former state should be little to thy latter": or rather the sense and meaning is, "though thy beginning should be small" r; be it so that it is; or rather that though he should begin again in the world with very little, as indeed at present he had nothing to begin with, and when he did it was but with little; one gave him a piece of money, and another an earring of gold:

yet thy latter end should greatly increase; as it did, for the Lord blessed his latter end, and he had more than at the beginning, even double to what he had in his most flourishing circumstances; see

Job 42:11, c. Bildad seems to have spoken under a spirit of prophecy, without being sensible of it, and not imagining in the least that so it would be in fact for he only affirms it on supposition of Job's good behaviour for the future, putting it entirely upon that condition, which he had no great expectation of it ever being performed.

r והיה "etsi fuerit", so some in Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Though thy beginning was small - On the supposition that the children of Job had been cut off, his family now was small. Yet Bildad says, that if he were to begin life again, even with so small a family, and in such depressed and trying circumstances, if he were a righteous man he might hope for returning prosperity.

Yet thy latter end - From this, it is evident that Job was not now regarded as an old man. He would still have the prospect of living many years. Some have supposed, however that the meaning here is, that his former prosperity should appear small compared with that which he would hereafter enjoy if he were pure and righteous. So Noyes and Rosenmuller interpret it. But it seems to me that the former interpretation is the correct one. Bildad utters a general sentiment, that though when a man begins life he has a small family and little property, yet if he is an upright man, he will be prospered and his possessions will greatly increase; compare Job 42:12 : “Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 8:7. Though thy beginning was small — Thy former state, compared to that into which God would have brought thee, would be small; for to show his respect for thy piety, because thou hadst, through thy faithful attachment to him, suffered the loss of all things, he would have greatly multiplied thy former prosperity, so that thou shouldest now have vastly more than thou didst ever before possess.