Job 5:25
Good News Translation
You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall know that your descendants will be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
You will have more descendants than there are blades of grass on the face of the earth.

New American Bible
You shall know that your descendants are many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

thy seed.

Job 42:13-16 And he had seven sons, and three daughters. . . .

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Leviticus 26:9 I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

Deuteronomy 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.

Psalm 112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Psalm 127:3-5 Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb. . . .

Psalm 128:3-6 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. . . .

great.

Psalm 72:16 And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin. 25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.26Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.…
Cross References
Psalm 72:16
And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

Psalm 112:2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock.

Isaiah 44:4
And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

Isaiah 48:19
And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.

Job 5:24
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