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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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

  • I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. …

  • The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

  • His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • 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.

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…

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