Job 21:11
New International Version
They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.

New Living Translation
They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance.

English Standard Version
They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

Berean Standard Bible
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

King James Bible
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

New King James Version
They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

New American Standard Bible
“They send out their boys like the flock, And their children dance.

NASB 1995
“They send forth their little ones like the flock, And their children skip about.

NASB 1977
“They send forth their little ones like the flock, And their children skip about.

Legacy Standard Bible
They send forth their little ones like the flock, And their children skip about.

Amplified Bible
“They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children skip about.

Christian Standard Bible
They let their little ones run around like lambs; their children skip about,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They let their little ones run around like lambs; their children skip about,

American Standard Version
They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their sons are firm as a flock, and their children dance

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp;

Contemporary English Version
their children play and dance safely by themselves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

English Revised Version
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They send their little children out [to play] like a flock of lambs, and their children dance around.

Good News Translation
Their children run and play like lambs

International Standard Version
They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about,

JPS Tanakh 1917
They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

Literal Standard Version
They send forth their sucklings as a flock, | And their children skip,

Majority Standard Bible
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

New American Bible
They let their young run free like sheep, their children skip about.

NET Bible
They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.

New Revised Standard Version
They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.

New Heart English Bible
They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

Webster's Bible Translation
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

World English Bible
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

Young's Literal Translation
They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry. 11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about, 12singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.…

Cross References
Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

Job 21:12
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Psalm 107:41
But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.


Treasury of Scripture

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Psalm 107:41
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

Psalm 127:3-5
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward…

Jump to Previous
Children Dance Flock Forth Little Ones Pleasure Skip Sucklings Young
Jump to Next
Children Dance Flock Forth Little Ones Pleasure Skip Sucklings Young
Job 21
1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God
16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world














(11, 12) They send forth their little ones . . .--In striking contrast to the fate of Job's own children, and in contradiction to what Eliphaz had said (Job 15:29-33).

Verse 11. - They send forth their little ones like a flock. Free, i.e. joyful and frolicsome, to disport themselves as they please. The picture is charmingly idyllic. And their children dance. Frisk, i.e. "and skip, and leap," like the young of cattle full of health, and in the enjoyment of plenty" (Lee).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They send forth
יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ (yə·šal·lə·ḥū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

their little ones
עֲוִילֵיהֶ֑ם (‘ă·wî·lê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5759: A young boy

like a flock;
כַ֭צֹּאן (ḵaṣ·ṣōn)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

their children
וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗ם (wə·yal·ḏê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

skip about,
יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃ (yə·raq·qê·ḏūn)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 7540: To stamp, to spring about


Links
Job 21:11 NIV
Job 21:11 NLT
Job 21:11 ESV
Job 21:11 NASB
Job 21:11 KJV

Job 21:11 BibleApps.com
Job 21:11 Biblia Paralela
Job 21:11 Chinese Bible
Job 21:11 French Bible
Job 21:11 Catholic Bible

OT Poetry: Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like (Jb)
Job 21:10
Top of Page
Top of Page