Job 21:8
They see their offspring continue before them: a commotion of close relatives and of children’s children in their sight.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
In Context
7Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?
9Their houses have been secure and peaceable, and there is no staff of God over them.
Cross References
Job 18:19Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.
Job 20:28The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
Proverbs 17:6Sons of sons are the crown of old age. And the glory of sons is their fathers.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →