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Job 21:8

Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.

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 Living Translation
They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren.
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;
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 then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? 8 Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight. 9 Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them. 10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit. 11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. 12 They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. 14 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him? 16 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be 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
He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate:
Genesis 26:30
And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:
Genesis 29:22
And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.
Genesis 40:20
The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker.
Judges 14:10
So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do.
Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:
1 Samuel 1:22
But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal’s heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.
2 Samuel 3:20
And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a feast for Abner, and his men that came with him.
1 Kings 3:15
And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when he was come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace offerings, and made a great feast 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.


 
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