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New Living Translation

Job 21:8

They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Rich, the;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Desire;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pashur;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hid;   Root;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their children are established while they are still alive,and their descendants, before their eyes.
Hebrew Names Version
Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.
King James Version
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
English Standard Version
Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
New Century Version
They see their children around them; they watch them grow up.
New English Translation
Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.
Amplified Bible
"Their children and descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
New American Standard Bible
"Their descendants endure with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes,
World English Bible
Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Their seed is established with them in their presence,And their offspring before their eyes,
Berean Standard Bible
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Contemporary English Version
Why are they allowed to see their children grow up?
Complete Jewish Bible
They see their children settled with them, their posterity assured.
Darby Translation
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Easy-to-Read Version
They watch their children grow up and live to see their grandchildren.
George Lamsa Translation
Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their children before their eyes.
Good News Translation
They have children and grandchildren, and live to watch them all grow up.
Lexham English Bible
With them their offspring are established before them, and their descendants before their eyes.
Literal Translation
Their seed is established with them before their face, and their offspring before their eyes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes.
American Standard Version
Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
Bible in Basic English
Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
King James Version (1611)
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight.
English Revised Version
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Her seed dwellith bifor hem; the cumpeny of kynesmen, and of sones of sones dwellith in her siyt.
Update Bible Version
Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
Webster's Bible Translation
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
New King James Version
Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
New Life Bible
They watch their children's children become strong in front of their eyes.
New Revised Standard
Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
Revised Standard Version
Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
Young's Literal Translation
Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes,

Contextual Overview

7 "Why do the wicked prosper, growing old and powerful? 8 They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren. 9 Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them. 10 Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves and never miscarry. 11 They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance. 12 They sing with tambourine and harp. They celebrate to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, then go down to the grave in peace. 14 And yet they say to God, ‘Go away. We want no part of you and your ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us to pray?' 16 (They think their prosperity is of their own doing, but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 5:3, Job 5:4, Job 18:19, Job 20:10, Job 20:28, Proverbs 17:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:15 - Eliphaz

Cross-References

Genesis 19:3
But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate.
Genesis 26:30
So Isaac prepared a covenant feast to celebrate the treaty, and they ate and drank together.
Genesis 29:22
So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast.
Genesis 40:20
Pharaoh's birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials.
Judges 14:10
As his father was making final arrangements for the marriage, Samson threw a party at Timnah, as was the custom for elite young men.
Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. If you solve my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give you thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing.
1 Samuel 1:22
But Hannah did not go. She told her husband, "Wait until the boy is weaned. Then I will take him to the Tabernacle and leave him there with the Lord permanently."
1 Samuel 25:36
When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.
2 Samuel 3:20
When Abner and twenty of his men came to Hebron, David entertained them with a great feast.
1 Kings 3:15
Then Solomon woke up and realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem and stood before the Ark of the Lord's Covenant, where he sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he invited all his officials to a great banquet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their seed is established in their sight with them,.... Which is to be understood not of seed sown in the earth, and of the permanence and increase of that, but of their children; to have a numerous progeny, was reckoned a great temporal blessing, and to have them settled happily and comfortably in the world was an additional one; and what contributed still more to their felicity was, that they were well settled during their life, or they yet living, and with their eyes beholding their prosperous and stable condition; and also "with them"; near them, in the same neighbourhood, or at no great distance from them; or even in like circumstances with them, equally as well settled and as prosperous as themselves, as this phrase is sometimes used, see Psalms 106:6;

and their offspring before their eyes; their children's children, as the Targum, and so the Vulgate Latin version; so that prosperity attends not only wicked men and their children, but also their grandchildren, and they live to see these grown up and settled in the world, and in thriving circumstances; all which must give them pleasure, and be matter of honour and glory to them, Proverbs 17:6. Now this is diametrically opposite to Zophar's notion of the short continuance of the prosperity of wicked men, and of the low and miserable condition of their children, Job 20:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their seed - Their children - their posterity.

Is established in their sight - Around them, where they may often see them - where they may enjoy their society. The friends of Job had maintained, with great positiveness and earnestness, that the children of wicked people would be cut off. See Job 18:19; Job 20:28. This position Job now directly controverts, and says that it is a fact, that so far from being cut off, they are often established in the very presence of their ungodly parents, and live and prosper. How, he asks, is this consistent with the position, that God deals with people in this life according to their character?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:8. Their seed is established — They see their own children grow up, and become settled in the land; and behold their children's children also; so that their generations are not cut off. Even the posterity of the wicked continue.


 
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