Job 21:8 BSB — MannaFest

Job 21:8

Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV (604)

Ver. 8. Their seed is established in their sight with them. 46. For the increase of exceeding happiness, together with a large patrimony, they have heirs too given them; and that no unavoidable temporal circumstance either may remove from their eyes those in whom their soul delights, it is said of this seed of theirs, Their seed is established in their sight. But what if children are vouchsafed, yet the children themselves stricken with barrenness? The family is made extinct in them, in like sort as it was feared it would be made extinct by the barrenness of their parents.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Their seed is established - They see their own children grow up, and become settled in the land; and behold their children’s children also; so that their generations are not cut off. Even the posterity of the wicked continue.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זַרְעָ֤ם	zar.'Am	offspring their	H2233 →
נָכ֣וֹן	na.Khon	[is] established	H3559 →
לִפְנֵיהֶ֣ם	lif.nei.Hem	<to> before them	H6440 →
עִמָּ֑ם	'i.Mam	with them	H5973 →
וְ֝צֶאֱצָאֵיהֶ֗ם	ve.tze.'e.tza.'ei.Hem	and descendants their	H6631 →
לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃	le.'ei.nei.Hem	to eyes their	H5869 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 17:6
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
leads to
- Psalms 127:3–5
  Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Proverbs 16:31
  Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
- Proverbs 13:22
  A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Psalms 128:3–6
  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Through
Psalms 17:14
from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they…
leads to
- Job 22:18
  But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
- John 17:14
  I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- John 8:23
  Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
- Luke 16:8
  The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Job