Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 5:25

"Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth." — Job 5:25 (ASV)

Great. —The word also means 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. However, it is impaired to a certain extent by its lack 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?