Job 21:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Job 5:3-4
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. …
Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 20:10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Psalms 17:14
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Topics

Capital and Labor Care Pride Prosperity Rich, the Wicked (people)

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. 8)

8. In opposition to Job 18:19; 5:4.