Job 5:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

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  • Ps 112:2 : 2 His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.
  • Ps 72:16 : 16 May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. 4 Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand. 5 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.
  • Ps 128:3-6 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table. 4 Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way. 5 May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life, 6 and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!
  • Isa 44:3-4 : 3 For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children. 4 They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water.
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
  • Lev 26:9 : 9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
  • Job 42:13-16 : 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers. 16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 5:23-24
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    79%

    23 For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

    24 And you will know that your home will be secure, and when you inspect your domains, you will not be missing anything.

  • 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.

  • Gen 22:17-18
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    17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

    18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

  • Gen 13:15-16
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    15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

    16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

  • Job 5:26-27
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    26 You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

    27 Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”

  • 19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.

  • 2 His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

  • Gen 26:3-4
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    3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

    4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

  • 13 They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

  • 4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

  • Gen 15:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

    5 The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”

  • 12 But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”

  • 23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

  • Gen 28:3-4
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    3 May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

    4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”

  • Gen 17:6-7
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    6 I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

    7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

  • 3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.

  • 30 A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the Lord.

  • 18 After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

  • 8 Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

  • 6 and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

  • 4 He said to me,‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’

  • 15 But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

  • 7 Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.

  • 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham,‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’

  • 11 The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

  • 21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

  • 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”

  • 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

  • 9 Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the LORD has blessed them.”