Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and…
Cambridge Bible
Another much-desired joy he shall feel that God has given him, a numerous offspring.
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