Job 21:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 21:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 107:41
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Psalms 127:3-5
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. send forth--namely, out of doors, to their happy sports under the skies, like a joyful flock sent to the pastures. little ones--like lambkins. children--somewhat older than the former. dance--not formal dances; but skip, like lambs, in joyous and healthful play.