Ayub 21:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Keturunan mereka tetap bersama mereka, dan anak cucu diperhatikan mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Keturunan mereka tetap bersama mereka, dan anak cucu diperhatikan mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Anak-anak mereka itu adalah dengan selamat sentosa di hadapannya dan segala benih mereka itu makin besar di hadapan matanya.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse? ⁸ Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. ¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull. ¹¹ They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes [leade the] daunce. ¹² They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs. ¹³ They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue. ¹⁴ They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. ¹⁵ Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him? ¹⁶ Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly.

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
And he preassed vpon them exceedinglye: and they returnyng in vnto hym, entred into his house, & he made them a feast, and did bake vnleuened bread, and they did eate.

Genesis 26:30
And he made them a feast, and they dyd eate and drynke.

Genesis 29:22
Then Laban gathered together all the men of that place, and made a feast.

Genesis 40:20
And it came to passe the thirde day, which was Pharaos birth day, that he made a feast vnto all his seruauntes: and he lyfted vp the head of the chiefe butler, and of the chiefe baker among his seruauntes:

Judges 14:10
And so his father went downe vnto the woman, and Samson made there a feast: for so vsed the younge men to do.

Judges 14:12
And Samson sayd vnto them, I will nowe put foorth a riddle vnto you: & yf you can declare it me within seuen dayes of the feast, and finde it out, I will geue you thirtie sheetes, & thirtie chaunge of garmentes:

1 Samuel 1:22
Neuerthelesse, Hanna wet not vp, but sayde vnto her husband: I will tary vntill the lad be weaned, and then I will bryng hym, that he may appeare before the Lord, and there abyde for euer.

1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal, and beholde, he held a feast in his house lyke the feast of a king, and Nabals heart was mery within hym, for he was very drunken: Wherfore she tolde him nothyng neither lesse nor more, vntyll the morowe mornyng.

2 Samuel 3:20
And so Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, hauing twentie men with him: & Dauid made him & the men that were with him a feast.

1 Kings 3:15
When Solomon awoke, beholde it was a dreame: And he came to Hierusalem and stoode before the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, & offred burnt offringes and peace offringes, and made a feast to all his seruauntes.

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.