Job 5:25
You will also be sure that you will have many children; your descendants will be like the grass of the earth.
Free Bible Version
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
26You will live to a ripe old age like a sheaf of grain when it is harvested.
Cross References
Genesis 13:16You will have so many descendants that they'll be like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count dust then they could count the number of your descendants!
Leviticus 26:9I will come to help you, so you will reproduce and increase in numbers, and I will confirm my agreement with you.
Job 42:13Job also had seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 112:2Their descendants will prosper in the land; the children of those who do good will be blessed.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around 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 →