Barnes' Notes on Job 21:8

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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Their seed - Their children - their posterity. Is established in their sight - Around them, where they may often see them - where they may enjoy their society. The friends of Job had maintained, with great positiveness and earnestness, that the children of wicked people would be cut off. See Job 18:19; Job 20:28. This position Job now directly controverts, and says that it is a fact, that so far from being cut off, they are often established in the very presence of their ungodly parents, and live and prosper. How, he asks, is this consistent with the position, that God deals with people in this life according to their character? return to 'Top of Page'

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