Ayub 5:25

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Engkau akan mengalami, bahwa keturunanmu menjadi banyak dan bahwa anak cucumu seperti rumput di tanah.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Engkau akan mengalami, bahwa keturunanmu menjadi banyak dan bahwa anak cucumu seperti rumput di tanah.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi ketahuilah olehmu bahwa anak benihmu akan berbanyak-banyak dan segala pucukmu seperti tumbuh-tumbuhan yang di atas bumi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy seed: Job 42:13-16, Genesis 15:5, Leviticus 26:9, Deuteronomy 28:4, Psalms 112:2, Psalms 127:3-5, Psalms 128:3-6

great: or, much.

as the grass: Psalms 72:16

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great,.... Not his seed sown in the earth, and the increase of that, but his children, as the next clause explains it, as Bar Tzemach well observes; and designs either their greatness in worldly things, in wealth and riches, in honour and dignity, in power and authority, or else their numbers; for the word may be rendered "much" or "many" n, a multitude of children being reckoned a great temporal blessing; but this seems rather intended in the following words:

and thine offspring as the grass of the earth; as numerous as the spires of grass, which can no more be told than the stars of the heavens, or the sand of the sea, by which the same thing, a numerous progeny, is sometimes illustrated: this is to be understood not of his immediate offspring, but his descendants in successive ages and generations, and which should be as beautiful as the grass of the earth when in its verdure; pointing at the comeliness of their persons, their honour and dignity raised unto, the largeness of their substance, the greatness of their prosperity, and flourishing circumstances they should be in; though it may also denote the original of them, amidst all, being of the earth and earthy, and their frailty and fading condition; for which reason all flesh is said to be as grass, and men are frequently compared unto it, see Psalms 90:5.

n רב "multum", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Piscator, Schmidt, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great - Margin, “much.” That is, thy posterity shall be numerous. This was one of the blessings supposed to be connected with the favor of God; see the notes at Isaiah 53:10.

And thine offspring as the grass of the earth - On the meaning of the word here rendered offspring, see the notes at Isaiah 48:19. Nothing is more common in the Scriptures, than to compare a prosperous and a happy man to a green and flourishing tree; see Psalms 1:3; Psalms 92:12-14. The idea here is, that the righteous would have a numerous and a happy posterity, and that the divine favor to them would bc shown by the blessing of God on their children; compare Psalms 128:1, Psalms 128:3.

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord,

That walketh in his ways.

Thy wife shall be a fruitful vine by the side of thine house;

Thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 5:25. Thine offspring as the grass — Thou shalt have a numerous and permanent issue.