Job Chapter 5 verse 25 Holy Bible
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.
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And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed will be great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.
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You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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And hast known that numerous `is' Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great. Little by little Eliphaz passes from a general description of the blessedness of those faithful ones who "despise not the chastening of the Almighty" (ver. 17) to a series of allusions which seem specially to touch Job's case. Without claiming prophetical inspiration, he ventures to promise him in the future "the exact reverse of all that he had experienced" in the past - "a safe home, flocks untouched, a happy and prosperous family, a peaceful old age" (Cook). The promises may have sounded in Job's ears as "a mockery" (ibid.); but it is creditable to the sagacity of Eliphaz that he ventured to make them. And thine offspring as the grass of the earth. The ordinary symbols for multitudinous-ness - the sand of the sea, and the stars of heaven - are here superseded by an entirely new one, "the grass of the earth." Undoubtedly it is equally appropriate, and perhaps more natural in a pastoral community.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) Great.--The word means also numerous, which seems to suit the parallelism better here. The whole description is a very beautiful and poetical one of the perfect security of faith, though it is to a certain extent vitiated by its want of strict correspondence with facts, of which the very case of Job was a crucial instance. This was the special problem with which his friends had to deal, and which proved too hard for them. May we not learn that the problem is one that can only be solved in practice and not in theory?
