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Job 5:25 — King James Version← Study notes

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.


Job 5:25Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 5:257 words
HebrewMeaning
וְֽ֭/יָדַעְתָּwəyādaʿətā
and you will knowconjH3045
acquaintance · advise · answer · appoint ···
כִּיkiy
thatconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
רַ֣בrab
will be manyadjH7227
-ant · -antly) · captain · elder ···
זַרְעֶ֑/ךָzarəʿekā
offspring yournounH2233
carnally · fruitful · seed · sowing-time
וְ֝/צֶאֱצָאֶ֗י/ךָwəṣeʾĕṣāʾeykā
and descendants yourconjH6631
offspring
כְּ/עֵ֣שֶׂבkəʿēśeb
will be like the vegetation ofpronH6212
herb
הָ/אָֽרֶץhāʾāreṣ
the earthparticleH776
common · earth · field · ground ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 5:25

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be manifold, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. For after the ‘peace of his tabernacle,’ after ‘the visiting of our likeness,’ the manifold seed of the righteous man ariseth, in that after the macerating of the members and the fulness of the moral virtues, the word of preaching is bestowed upon him so much the more productive, in proportion as it is anticipated in his breast by the tillage of perfect practice. For he…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 6 §54
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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