Job 21:8
Their children are with them; they watch their grandchildren grow up.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
In Context
7Why do the wicked continue to live, to grow old and increasingly powerful?
9They live in their homes in safety—they are not afraid. God does not use his rod to beat them.
Cross References
Job 18:19They have no children or descendants among their people, and no survivors where they used to live.
Job 20:28All their possessions will be carried from their homes; they will be dragged off on the day of God's judgment.
Proverbs 17:6Old people are proud of their grandchildren, and children are proud of their parents.
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 →