Job 21:8

New Life Version

They watch their children's children become strong in front of their eyes.

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

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 sinful live, become old, and become very powerful? ⁸ They watch their children's children become strong in front of their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear. And the punishment of God does not come upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull mates without trouble. Their cow gives birth to live calves. ¹¹ They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children jump around. ¹² They sing to the timbrel and the harp. They show their joy at the sound of the horn. ¹³ They spend their days with much more than they need. And all at once they go down to the place of the dead. ¹⁴ They say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We do not want to know Your ways. ¹⁵ Who is the All-powerful, that we should serve Him? What would we have more than we have if we prayed to Him?' ¹⁶ See, their well-being is not in their own hands. The wisdom of the sinful is far from me.

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 he begged them, so they turned aside with him and went into his house. And he made a supper for them. He made bread without yeast, and they ate.

Genesis 26:30
So Isaac made a special supper for them, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 29:22
And Laban gathered all the men of the place together, and made a special supper.

Genesis 40:20
On the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, he made a special supper for his servants. He gave honor to the head cup-carrier and the head bread-maker among his servants.

Judges 14:10
Then his father went down to the woman. Samson made a special supper there. The young men used to do this.

Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them, "Let me see if you can answer this question. If you can find the answer within the seven days of the special supper, I will give you thirty linen coats and thirty pieces of clothing.

1 Samuel 1:22
But Hannah did not go. For she said to her husband, "I will not go up until the child no longer needs to be nursed. Then I will bring him before the Lord, to stay there forever."

1 Samuel 25:36
Abigail came to Nabal and saw that he was having a special supper in his house, like the special supper of a king. Nabal's heart was full of joy, because he was very drunk. So she did not tell him anything until the morning.

2 Samuel 3:20
Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron. And David made a special supper for Abner and the men who were with him.

1 Kings 3:15
Solomon awoke, and saw it was a dream. He came to Jerusalem and stood before the Lord's special box of the agreement. There he gave burnt gifts and peace gifts, and made a special supper for all his servants.

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.