Job 5:25
You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
World English Bible Catholic
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 in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
26You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Cross References
Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
Leviticus 26:9“‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Job 42:13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 112:2His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots 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 →