Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
13 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “children” →
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them .
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it .
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
