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Job 21:8

Job 21:8
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Their houses are safe from fear,.... Of enemies besetting them, entering into them, and pillaging and plundering them; of thieves and robbers breaking into them, and carrying off their substance: or…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 21:7-16

All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. "It is true," says Job, "remarkable judgments are…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

They have the additional felicity of seeing their children grow up beside them a pathetic touch from the hand of the man whose sons had been taken from him.

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