Job 8:7

Your beginning ¹  will seem so small, since your future will flourish. ² 

De 8:16; Job 42:12,13; Pr 4:18; Pr 19:20; Zec 4:10; Zec 14:7; Mt 13:12,31,32; 2Pe 2:20

¹ tn The reference to “your beginning” is a reference to Job’s former estate of wealth and peace. The reference to “latter end” is a reference to conditions still in the future. What Job had before will seem so small in comparison to what lies ahead.

² tn The verb has the idea of “to grow”; here it must mean “to flourish; to grow considerably” or the like. The statement is not so much a prophecy; rather Bildad is saying that “if Job had recourse to God, then….” This will be fulfilled, of course, at the end of the book.