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and all of my children were nearby.

Job lived for another one hundred forty years—long enough to see his great-grandchildren have children of their own—

With praises from children and from tiny infants, you have built a fortress. It makes your enemies silent, and all who turn against you are left speechless.

Use your powerful arm and rescue me from the hands of mere humans whose world won't last. You provide food for those you love. Their children have plenty, and their grandchildren will have more than enough.

They will have plenty, and then their children will receive the land.

Come, my children, listen as I teach you to respect the Lord .

As long as I can remember, good people have never been left helpless, and their children have never gone begging for food.

They gladly give and lend, and their children turn out good.

The Lord loves justice, and he won't ever desert his faithful people. He always protects them, but destroys the children of the wicked.

and when the time comes, their children will inherit the land. Then everyone who loves God will also settle there.

God gave his Law to Jacob's descendants, the people of Israel. And he told our ancestors to teach their children,

"I, the Most High God, say that all of you are gods and also my own children.

Suppose some of his children should reject my Law and refuse my instructions.

Do wonderful things for us, your servants, and show your mighty power to our children.

Just as parents are kind to their children, the Lord is kind to all who worship him,

I'll scatter your children everywhere in the world."

and to the gods of Canaan. Then they poured out the blood of these innocent children and made the land filthy.

The Lord will bless you with many children and with herds of cattle.

Make orphans of his children and a widow of his wife;

make his children beg for food and live in the slums.