Job 27:14

Job 27:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
• New International Version (NIV)However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
• English Standard Version (ESV)If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.
• New King James Version (NKJV)If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Context of Job 27:14

12Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain? 13This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: — If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread; 15Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep. 16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

Job 27:14 word by word

אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃Read the interlinear

• multipliedרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• satisfiedשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899

Cross-references for Job 27:14

• Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
• Deuteronomy 28:32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand [to help it].
• 2 Kings 9:7And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master; and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Jehovah at the hand of Jezebel.
• 2 Kings 10:6And he wrote a letter the second time to them saying, If ye are mine, and will hearken to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jizreel to-morrow at this time. Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
• Esther 5:11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
• Esther 9:5And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.
• Psalms 109:13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
• Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I saw [him], was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.
• Luke 23:29for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed [are] the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.
• 1 Samuel 2:5They that were full have hired themselves out for bread; and the hungry are [so] no more: Even the barren beareth seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

Commentaries on Job 27:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14If his children be multiplied - As numerous families were supposed to be a proof of the benediction of the Almighty, Job shows that this is not always the case; for the offspring of the wicked shall be partly cut off by violent deaths, and partly reduced to great poverty.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword - That is, they shall be slain in war. The first calamities which it is here said would come upon a man, relate to his family Job 27:14-18; the next are those that would come upon himself, Job 27:19-23. All the sentiments here expressed are found in the various speeches of the friends of Job, and, according to the interpretation suggested above, this is designed to represent their sentiments. They…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-23Verses 11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2311-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer Zophar's opinion, as stated by himself? The…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 27:14

• Hypocrisy
• Oppression
• Rich, the
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Deceit
• Heap
• Job, Book of

Commentaries on Job 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings