'Children' in the Bible

“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,And there is no one to rescue them.

“You will know also that your descendants will be many,And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

“If your children have sinned against Him,Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them.

“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.

“My breath is repulsive to my wife,And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

“Even young children despise me;When I get up, they speak against me.

“His sons favor the poor [and pay his obligations],And his hands give back his [ill-gotten] wealth.

“Their children and descendants are established with them in their sight,And their offspring before their eyes.

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

“You say, ‘God stores away [the punishment of] man’s wickedness for his children.’Let God repay him so that he may know and experience it.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;As bread for their children in the desert.

“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.

When the Almighty was still with meAnd my boys were around me,