Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 5:25
Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
25. Another much-desired joy he shall feel that God has given him, a numerous offspring.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great – Margin, much. That is, thy posterity shall be numerous. This was one of the blessings supposed to be connected with the favor of God; see the notes at Isa 53:10.
And thine offspring as the grass of the earth – On the meaning of the word here rendered offspring, see the notes at Isa 48:19. Nothing is more common in the Scriptures, than to compare a prosperous and a happy man to a green and flourishing tree; see Psa 1:3; Psa 92:12-14. The idea here is, that the righteous would have a numerous and a happy posterity, and that the divine favor to them would bc shown by the blessing of God on their children; compare Psa 128:1, Psa 128:3.
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord,
That walketh in his ways.
Thy wife shall be a fruitful vine by the side of thine house;
Thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 25. Thine offspring as the grass] Thou shalt have a numerous and permanent issue.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Thou shalt know; partly by assurance from Gods promises, and the impressions of his Spirit; and partly by experience in due time.
Thy seed shall be great; thy posterity, which God will give thee instead of those which thou hast lost, shall be high, and honourable, and powerful. Or, shall be many.
Thine offspring; which shall come out of thy own loins as branches out of a tree, as the word signifies. And this word seems added to the former to restrain and explain it, by showing that he did not speak of his spiritual seed, as Abrahams seed is in part understood, but of the fruit of his own body. As the grass of the earth; both for its plentiful increase, and for its flourishing greenness.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
25. as the grass (Ps72:16). Properly, “herb-bearing seed” (Gen 1:11;Gen 1:12).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great,…. Not his seed sown in the earth, and the increase of that, but his children, as the next clause explains it, as Bar Tzemach well observes; and designs either their greatness in worldly things, in wealth and riches, in honour and dignity, in power and authority, or else their numbers; for the word may be rendered “much” or “many” n, a multitude of children being reckoned a great temporal blessing; but this seems rather intended in the following words:
and thine offspring as the grass of the earth; as numerous as the spires of grass, which can no more be told than the stars of the heavens, or the sand of the sea, by which the same thing, a numerous progeny, is sometimes illustrated: this is to be understood not of his immediate offspring, but his descendants in successive ages and generations, and which should be as beautiful as the grass of the earth when in its verdure; pointing at the comeliness of their persons, their honour and dignity raised unto, the largeness of their substance, the greatness of their prosperity, and flourishing circumstances they should be in; though it may also denote the original of them, amidst all, being of the earth and earthy, and their frailty and fading condition; for which reason all flesh is said to be as grass, and men are frequently compared unto it, see Ps 90:5.
n “multum”, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Piscator, Schmidt, Michaelis.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(25) Great.The word means also numerous, which seems to suit the parallelism better here. The whole description is a very beautiful and poetical one of the perfect security of faith, though it is to a certain extent vitiated by its want of strict correspondence with facts, of which the very case of Job was a crucial instance. This was the special problem with which his friends had to deal, and which proved too hard for them. May we not learn that the problem is one that can only be solved in practice and not in theory?
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Job 5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Ver. 25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great ] Thou shalt live to see thy children (whereof thou art now bereft) not only restored, but increased. Children are the seed, parents are but the husk, as it were: to have these multiplied is no small mercy, Psa 128:3 , especially when the wife is as the vine, and the children like olive plants, two of the best fruits, the one for sweetness, the other for fatness, Jdg 9:13 ; when they prove to be as arrows of a strong man, such as whose natural knottiness is reformed and smoothed by grace, such as for the workmanship of grace and holiness in their hearts and lives are become like the graving of a king’s palace, Psa 144:12 . What can better preserve Jacob (Job) from confusion, or his face from waxing pale, than if he might see his children, the work of God’s hands, framed and fitted by the word in regeneration, and the duties of new obedience? this would make religious parents to sanctify God’s name, even to sanctify the Holy One, and with singular encouragement from the God of Israel, Isa 29:22-23 .
And thine offspring as the grass of the earth
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
great = many.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
thy seed: Job 42:13-16, Gen 15:5, Lev 26:9, Deu 28:4, Psa 112:2, Psa 127:3-5, Psa 128:3-6
great: or, much.
as the grass: Psa 72:16
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 5:25. Thou shalt know By assurance from Gods promises, the impressions of his Spirit, and by experience, in due time, that thy seed shall be great Thy posterity, which God shall give thee, instead of those whom thou hast lost, shall be high, and honourable, and powerful: or, shall be many, as , rab, often signifies. And thine offspring The fruit of thy body; (for he speaks of his natural, not of his spiritual seed, as Abrahams seed is in part to be understood;) as the grass of the earth
Both for its plentiful increase, and for its flourishing greenness.