Bible Strands
Job 5:25
You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — Eliphaz addresses Job, outlining a future of domestic and familial security immediately after promising the safety of his dwelling in Job 5:24. This declaration occurs within a larger argument where Eliphaz maintains that righteous conduct guarantees tangible, earthly prosperity.
The words — The Hebrew terms זַרְעֶךָ (zarʿeḵā) and צֶאֱצָאֶךָ (ṣeʾeṣʾeḵā) literally mean "your offspring" and "your descendants." Both words function as concrete markers of numerical increase and generational continuity.
The thread — The promise of multiplied progeny appears in Psalms 112:2, which links upright living to mighty descendants, and Deuteronomy 28:4, which blesses the fruit of the womb. The agricultural imagery of flourishing growth also runs through Psalms 72:16.
Why it lands — The verse directly asserts that obedience will produce numerous offspring and flourishing descendants. It requires the reader to acknowledge a stated causal link between faithful conduct and generational prosperity without adding emotional or devotional qualifiers.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Cross-references
- Psalms 112:2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Psalms 72:16 May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, the people of its cities like the grass of the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- Genesis 15:5 And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Job 42:13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
- Leviticus 26:9 I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- Psalms 127:3 Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Psalms 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.