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Job 21:11

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21:11They allow their children to run28 like a flock;

their little ones dance about.

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Footnotes

  1. 28 The verb שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to send forth,” but in the Piel “to release; to allow to run free.” The picture of children frolicking in the fields and singing and dancing is symbolic of peaceful, prosperous times.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They send out their little boys like a flock,

and their children dance.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They send forth their children as a flock;

their little ones dance about.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They let their little ones run around like lambs;

their children skip about,

NLTNew Living Translation

They let their children frisk about like lambs.

Their little ones skip and dance.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They send out their little ones like the flock,

and their children dance around.

KJV 1900King James Version

They send forth their little ones like a flock,

And their children dance.