Job 5:25
You shall know also that your seed shall be great,Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
New Heart English 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 shall know that your tent is in peace.You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
26You shall 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 number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
Leviticus 26:9"'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Job 42:13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 112:2His seed will be mighty in the land.DALETThe generation of the upright will be blessed.HEY
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine,in the innermost parts of your house;your children like olive plants,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 →