Your Latter End Will Be Better

Your Latter End Will Be Better

Job 8:7-10 NKJV

[7] Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly. [8] “For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; [9] For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow. [10] Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart?

    

Bildad is responding to Job’s lament over his suffering. In this speech (Job 8), Bildad argues that God is just and that Job’s suffering must have come because of some wrongdoing. His point in verse 7 is: “Job, if you return to God and live righteously, He will restore you. Even though your beginning was small, your end will prosper.” So in Bildad’s mind, this was conditional prosperity — “if you repent, God will restore.” Though Bildad’s theology was incomplete (because Job’s suffering wasn’t caused by sin), the principle he states about humble beginnings leading to greater ends under God’s hand is biblically true.

    Bildad is  painting a picture of divine enlargement — God taking something that appears tiny and multiplying it beyond imagination. This verse captures one of God’s consistent patterns in Scripture: that God delights in small beginnings. Abraham started as one man — God made him a great nation. David was the youngest shepherd — God made him a king. Jesus was born in a manger — yet became the Saviour of the world. The Church began with 120 praying believers —today,  it has become a global body.

     God’s way often starts with the seed before the harvest, the mustard seed before the tree, the cross before the crown. You may be at your beginning, don't worry. Your latter end will greatly increase. You have to hold on and follow God's patterns. In the end, Job greatly increased. You will too. The devil is not bigger than God. Good morning.

When Comfort Turns To Condemnation

When Comfort Turns to Condemnation

Job 6:14-16, 21-22 NKJV
[14] “To him who is afflicted, kindness should be shown by his friend, Even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. [15] My brothers have dealt deceitfully like a brook, Like the streams of the brooks that pass away, [16] Which are dark because of the ice, And into which the snow vanishes....[21] For now you are nothing, You see terror and are afraid. [22] Did I ever say, ‘Bring something to me’? Or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth’?

     Job could not take it any longer. He challenges Eliphaz and his other friends. His accusations expose the danger of careless counsel: words meant to heal can actually wound deeper. Eliphaz’s counsel was empty and harsh (Job 6:25–26). Job describes his words as “windy” and unhelpful. Instead of comfort, Eliphaz offered arguments that increased Job’s pain.  Harsh truth without love is cruelty. Counsel must carry grace. When someone is broken, they don’t need a lecture—they need empathy. " Job here made his most basic accusation against Eliphaz: “You should show me kindness, even if it were true that I had forsaken the fear of the Almighty.”
    Guzik summarizes Smick: “Verse 21 is the climax of Job’s reaction to his friends’ counsel. They offered no help. The verse is like a sermon about the special strength needed to be willing to make oneself available when we see others in a truly dreadful condition. The risk involved makes us afraid.” Guzik sums it up: "Job wasn’t asking his friends to pay him money or to ransom him from kidnappers. All he wanted was some words of comfort, and he heard none". Has anyone been in a moment like this?
    Eliphaz failed the test of friendship (Job 6:14–15). Job says: “A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends.” Eliphaz was like a dried-up brook—absent when needed most. True friendship is proven in crisis. We should be a fountain of encouragement, not a drain of hope. Eliphaz represents well-meaning but misguided counsel. He had empty words instead of comfort. He misjudged instead of being understanding. He showed betrayal instead of loyalty. He ran on presumption instead of truth. How's your friendship? Good morning.