Job 21:8
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
In Context
7Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
9Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
Cross References
Job 18:19Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
Job 20:28The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 17:6Childres children are the crowne of the elders: and the glory of ye children are their fathers.
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 →