Job 5:25

Easy-to-Read Version

You will have many children. They will be as many as the blades of grass on the earth.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will also know that your offspring will be manyand your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the eretz.

King James Version
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

English Standard Version
You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.

New Century Version
You will know that you will have many children, and your descendants will be like the grass on the earth.

New English Translation
You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Amplified Bible
"You will know also that your descendants will be many, And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

New American Standard Bible
"You will also know that your descendants will be many, And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

World English Bible
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
You will know also that your seed will be many,And your offspring as the vegetation of the land.

Berean Standard Bible
You will know that your offspring will be many, and your descendants will be like the grass of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
You will have more descendants than there are blades of grass on the face of the earth.

Complete Jewish Bible
You will know that your descendants are many, your offspring like grass [growing thick] in the fields.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

Good News Translation
You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.

Lexham English Bible
And you shall know that your offspring are many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.

Literal Translation
And you shall know that your seed will be numerous, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt se also, that thy sede shall encreace, and that thy posterite shalbe as the grasse vpon the earth.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Bible in Basic English
You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt see also that thy seede shall be great, and thy posteritie as the grasse vpon the earth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt know also that thy seede shalbe great, and thine offspring as the grasse of the earth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt wite also, that thi seed schal be many fold, and thi generacioun schal be as an erbe of erthe.

Update Bible Version
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt know also that thy seed [will be] great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.

New King James Version
You shall also know that your descendants shall be many, And your offspring like the grass of the earth.

New Living Translation
You will have many children; your descendants will be as plentiful as grass!

New Life Bible
You will know also that your children and children's children will be many. They will be as the grass of the earth.

New Revised Standard
You shall know that your descendants will be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

Revised Standard Version
You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You will know also that your descendants will be many, And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ "You are fortunate when God corrects you. So don't complain when God All-Powerful punishes you. ¹⁸ God might injure you, but he will bandage those wounds. He might hurt you, but his hands also heal. ¹⁹ He will save you again and again. No evil will harm you. ²⁰ God will save you from death when there is famine. He will protect you from the sword when there is war. ²¹ People might say bad things about you with their sharp tongues. But God will protect you. You will not be afraid when bad things happen! ²² You will laugh at destruction and famine. You will not be afraid of wild animals! ²³ It is as if you have a peace treaty with the wild animals and the rocks in the field. ²⁴ You will live in peace because your tent is safe. You will count your property and find nothing missing. ²⁵ You will have many children. They will be as many as the blades of grass on the earth. ²⁶ You will be like the wheat that grows until harvest time. Yes, you will live to a ripe old age.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy seed: Job 42:13-16, Genesis 15:5, Leviticus 26:9, Deuteronomy 28:4, Psalms 112:2, Psalms 127:3-5, Psalms 128:3-6

great: or, much.

as the grass: Psalms 72:16

Cross-References

Genesis 4:18
Enoch had a son named Irad. Irad had a son named Mehujael. Mehujael had a son named Methushael. And Methushael had a son named Lamech.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great,.... Not his seed sown in the earth, and the increase of that, but his children, as the next clause explains it, as Bar Tzemach well observes; and designs either their greatness in worldly things, in wealth and riches, in honour and dignity, in power and authority, or else their numbers; for the word may be rendered "much" or "many" n, a multitude of children being reckoned a great temporal blessing; but this seems rather intended in the following words:

and thine offspring as the grass of the earth; as numerous as the spires of grass, which can no more be told than the stars of the heavens, or the sand of the sea, by which the same thing, a numerous progeny, is sometimes illustrated: this is to be understood not of his immediate offspring, but his descendants in successive ages and generations, and which should be as beautiful as the grass of the earth when in its verdure; pointing at the comeliness of their persons, their honour and dignity raised unto, the largeness of their substance, the greatness of their prosperity, and flourishing circumstances they should be in; though it may also denote the original of them, amidst all, being of the earth and earthy, and their frailty and fading condition; for which reason all flesh is said to be as grass, and men are frequently compared unto it, see Psalms 90:5.

n רב "multum", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Piscator, Schmidt, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great - Margin, “much.” That is, thy posterity shall be numerous. This was one of the blessings supposed to be connected with the favor of God; see the notes at Isaiah 53:10.

And thine offspring as the grass of the earth - On the meaning of the word here rendered offspring, see the notes at Isaiah 48:19. Nothing is more common in the Scriptures, than to compare a prosperous and a happy man to a green and flourishing tree; see Psalms 1:3; Psalms 92:12-14. The idea here is, that the righteous would have a numerous and a happy posterity, and that the divine favor to them would bc shown by the blessing of God on their children; compare Psalms 128:1, Psalms 128:3.

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord,

That walketh in his ways.

Thy wife shall be a fruitful vine by the side of thine house;

Thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 5:25. Thine offspring as the grass — Thou shalt have a numerous and permanent issue.