Passage

Bildad’s prediction

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

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⁷Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Job 8:7World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

Bildad answers Job with a claim that uprightness would bring prosperity.

To understand

His forecast of a greatly increased future follows that condition. These are Bildad’s words within a dispute, not a promise of personal prosperity to everyone reading them.

A question

What condition does Bildad attach to his forecast?