Job 5:25

You will also know that your children ¹  will be numerous, and your descendants ²  like the grass of the earth.

Ge 15:5; Le 26:9; De 28:4; Job 42:13-16; Ps 72:16; Ps 112:2; Ps 127:3-5; Ps 128:3-6

¹ tn Heb “your seed.”

² 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.