Job 21:11

Wicked people send their young children outside to play, and the children play happily like [SIM] lambs in a pasture.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

In Context

10Their bulls always mate with the cows successfully, and the cows give birth to calves and never miscarry.

12Some children dance and sing, while others shake tambourines and play lyres, and they are happy when they hear people playing flutes.

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Cross References

Psalms 127:3Children are a gift that comes to parents from Yahweh; they are a reward/blessing from him.

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 →

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