Job 5:25
You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Majority Standard Bible
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
24You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Cross References
Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Leviticus 26:9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
Job 42:13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 112:2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting 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 →