Study Desk

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

Your children must have sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved.

They never know if their children grow up in honor or sink to insignificance.

They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.

Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.

Their children will beg from the poor, for they must give back their stolen riches.

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

They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance.

"‘Well,' you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!' But I say he should punish the ones who sin, so that they understand his judgment.

Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children.

They may have many children, but the children will die in war or starve to death.

The Almighty was still with me, and my children were around me.

Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.

You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.

By the power of your hand, O Lord , destroy those who look to this world for their reward. But satisfy the hunger of your treasured ones. May their children have plenty, leaving an inheritance for their descendants.

You will wipe their children from the face of the earth; they will never have descendants.

Our children will also serve him. Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord.

They will live in prosperity, and their children will inherit the land.

Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the Lord .