Job 21:8
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Revised Version 1895
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 live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Cross References
Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of 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 →