King James Version
Job 21:9 in the King James Version says “Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. safe: Heb. peace from” — study this verse from Job chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. safe: Heb. peace from”
Job 21:9 · KJV
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.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Their houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“are safe”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“from fear”
H6343a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“neither is the rod”
H7626a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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