Job 21:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

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  • Job 5:3-4 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  • Job 20:10 : 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
  • Job 20:28 : 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of God's wrath.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men who are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure; they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babies.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

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  • Job 21:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them.

    10Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

    11They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

  • 7Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power?

  • 9And their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the descendants whom the Lord has blessed.

  • 2His descendants shall be mighty upon the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

  • 10You shall destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

  • 23They shall not labor in vain nor bear children for calamity; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

  • 28The children of your servants shall continue, and their descendants shall be established before you.

  • 19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall grow.

  • Job 27:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.

    14If his children multiply, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • 20Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.

  • 23Though it be given him to be in safety, on which he rests, yet his eyes are on their ways.

  • 21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

  • 8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

  • 16Indeed, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 25You shall also know that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

  • 11Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

  • 8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • 13His soul shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.

  • 8Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

  • 30A posterity shall serve Him; it will be recounted to the Lord for a generation.

  • 16When the wicked multiply, transgression increases; but the righteous shall see their fall.

  • 19Your descendants also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your body like its gravel; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

  • 3Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

  • Job 21:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

    19God lays up iniquity for his children; He rewards him, and he shall know it.

  • 4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.

  • 6That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

  • 2You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their hearts.

  • 4Their young ones grow strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

  • 4For there are no pains in their death; but their strength is firm.

  • 7He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he establishes them forever, and they are exalted.

  • 21For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He sees all his goings.

  • 6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • 5There they were in great fear, for God is with the generation of the righteous.

  • 21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

  • 14From men who are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure; they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babies.

  • 7The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

  • 14They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and flourishing,

  • Ps 89:29-30
    2 verses
    68%

    29His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

    30If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments;

  • 8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

  • 7Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.

  • 2And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

  • 4If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;

  • 21Does not their excellence which is in them vanish away? They die, even without wisdom.

  • 21Though they join hands, the wicked shall not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous shall be delivered.