Job 5:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Job 5:25 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 112:2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Psalms 72:16
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Job 42:13-16
He had also seven sons and three daughters. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 17-27)

Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and accommodate himself to them. Observe, I. The seasonable word of caution and exhortation that he gives him (Job 5:17): “ Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Call it a chastening, which comes…

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

(vv. 25)

25. as the grass--(Psa 72:16). Properly, “herb-bearing seed” (Ge 1:11, 12).