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Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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A Conditional Promise
Commentators explain that Bildad is not offering Job unconditional hope. He is presenting a conditional promise based on his rigid theology: if Job were truly righteous, God would restore him. Even from a small new beginning, his future prosperity would be immense. This highlights the 'retribution theology' of Job's friends.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Though your beginning was small - On the supposition that Job's children had been cut off, his family was now small. Yet Bildad says that if…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Though your beginning was small When he first set out in the world; and which though it greatly increased, and he wa…
Job spoke much to the purpose; but Bildad, like an eager, angry disputant, dismisses it all with this: "How long will you speak these things?" Peop…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the discourse that Job just finished, he had responded to the speech of Eliphaz, showing that Eliphaz was profoundly mistaken. But Bildad of Shu…
