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Literal Standard Version

Job 21:8

Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Rich, the;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Desire;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pashur;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hid;   Root;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their children are established while they are still alive,and their descendants, before their eyes.
Hebrew Names Version
Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.
King James Version
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
English Standard Version
Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
New Century Version
They see their children around them; they watch them grow up.
New English Translation
Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.
Amplified Bible
"Their children and descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
New American Standard Bible
"Their descendants endure with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes,
World English Bible
Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Their seed is established with them in their presence,And their offspring before their eyes,
Berean Standard Bible
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Contemporary English Version
Why are they allowed to see their children grow up?
Complete Jewish Bible
They see their children settled with them, their posterity assured.
Darby Translation
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Easy-to-Read Version
They watch their children grow up and live to see their grandchildren.
George Lamsa Translation
Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their children before their eyes.
Good News Translation
They have children and grandchildren, and live to watch them all grow up.
Lexham English Bible
With them their offspring are established before them, and their descendants before their eyes.
Literal Translation
Their seed is established with them before their face, and their offspring before their eyes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes.
American Standard Version
Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
Bible in Basic English
Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
King James Version (1611)
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight.
English Revised Version
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Her seed dwellith bifor hem; the cumpeny of kynesmen, and of sones of sones dwellith in her siyt.
Update Bible Version
Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
Webster's Bible Translation
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
New King James Version
Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
New Living Translation
They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren.
New Life Bible
They watch their children's children become strong in front of their eyes.
New Revised Standard
Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
Revised Standard Version
Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
Young's Literal Translation
Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes,

Contextual Overview

7Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth. 8Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes.9Their houses [are] peace without fear, || Nor [is] a rod of God on them. 10His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry. 11They send forth their sucklings as a flock, || And their children skip, 12They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe. 13They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol. 14And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired. 15What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him? 16Behold, their good [is] not in their hand || (The counsel of the wicked || Has been far from me).

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 5:3, Job 5:4, Job 18:19, Job 20:10, Job 20:28, Proverbs 17:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:15 - Eliphaz

Cross-References

Genesis 19:3
And he presses on them greatly, and they turn aside to him, and come into his house; and he makes a banquet for them, and has baked unleavened things; and they eat.
Genesis 26:30
And he makes a banquet for them, and they eat and drink,
Genesis 29:22
and Laban gathers all the men of the place, and makes a banquet.
Genesis 40:20
And it comes to pass, on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he makes a banquet to all his servants, and lifts up the head of the chief of the butlers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants,
Judges 14:10
And his father goes down to the woman, and Samson makes a banquet there, for so the young men does;
Judges 14:12
And Samson says to them, "Now let me put forth a riddle to you; if you certainly declare it to me [in] the seven days of the banquet, and have found [it] out, then I have given thirty linen shirts and thirty changes of garments to you;
1 Samuel 1:22
And Hannah has not gone up, for she said to her husband, "Until the youth is weaned—then I have brought him in, and he has appeared before the face of YHWH, and dwelt there for all time."
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail comes to Nabal, and behold, he has a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk to excess, and she has not declared anything to him, little or much, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 3:20
and Abner comes to David, to Hebron, and twenty men [are] with him, and David makes a banquet for Abner and for the men who [are] with him.
1 Kings 3:15
And Solomon awakens, and behold, [it was] a dream; and he comes to Jerusalem, and stands before the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend, and makes peace-offerings, and he makes a banquet for all his servants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their seed is established in their sight with them,.... Which is to be understood not of seed sown in the earth, and of the permanence and increase of that, but of their children; to have a numerous progeny, was reckoned a great temporal blessing, and to have them settled happily and comfortably in the world was an additional one; and what contributed still more to their felicity was, that they were well settled during their life, or they yet living, and with their eyes beholding their prosperous and stable condition; and also "with them"; near them, in the same neighbourhood, or at no great distance from them; or even in like circumstances with them, equally as well settled and as prosperous as themselves, as this phrase is sometimes used, see Psalms 106:6;

and their offspring before their eyes; their children's children, as the Targum, and so the Vulgate Latin version; so that prosperity attends not only wicked men and their children, but also their grandchildren, and they live to see these grown up and settled in the world, and in thriving circumstances; all which must give them pleasure, and be matter of honour and glory to them, Proverbs 17:6. Now this is diametrically opposite to Zophar's notion of the short continuance of the prosperity of wicked men, and of the low and miserable condition of their children, Job 20:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their seed - Their children - their posterity.

Is established in their sight - Around them, where they may often see them - where they may enjoy their society. The friends of Job had maintained, with great positiveness and earnestness, that the children of wicked people would be cut off. See Job 18:19; Job 20:28. This position Job now directly controverts, and says that it is a fact, that so far from being cut off, they are often established in the very presence of their ungodly parents, and live and prosper. How, he asks, is this consistent with the position, that God deals with people in this life according to their character?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:8. Their seed is established — They see their own children grow up, and become settled in the land; and behold their children's children also; so that their generations are not cut off. Even the posterity of the wicked continue.


 
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