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25 You will also know that your children[a] will be numerous,
and your descendants[b] like the grass of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:25 tn Heb “your seed.”
  2. Job 5:25 tn The word means “your shoots” and is parallel to “your seed” in the first colon. It refers here (as in Isa 34:1 and 42:5) to the produce of the earth. Some commentators suggest that Eliphaz seems to have forgotten or was insensitive to Job’s loss of his children; H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 57) says his conventional theology is untouched by human feeling.