Job 21:8
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 21:8 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 21:8 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 21:8 — KJV
“Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.”
— Job 21:8 (KJV)
Job 21:8 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 21:8
“Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.”
Shares key themes with Job 21:8: seed, before, eyes
“Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.”
Shares key themes with Job 21:8: sight, before, eyes
“Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. in...: Heb. before his eyes”
Shares key themes with Job 21:8: sight, before, eyes
“And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: devised: Heb. the device which he...: or, who wrote”
Shares key themes with Job 21:8: sight, before, eyes
“The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. in...: Heb. before thine eyes”
Shares key themes with Job 21:8: sight, before, eyes
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