Job 5:25

You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

26You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:16And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

Leviticus 26:9And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.

Job 42:13And he had seven sons and three daughters.

Psalms 112:2His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

Matthew Henry on Job 5:18-27

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:… Read the whole commentary →

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