King James Version
Job 21:8 in the King James Version says “Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.” — study this verse from Job chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.”
Job 21:8 · KJV
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. safe: Heb. peace from
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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“is established”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
“in their sight”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“before their eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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