Job 36:14

Job 36:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
• New International Version (NIV)They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They die in youth, And their life ends among the perverted persons.

Context of Job 36:14

12But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge. 13But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them: Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean. 15But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression. 16Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.

Job 36:14 word by word

תָּמֹ֣ת בַּנֹּ֣עַר נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים׃Read the interlinear

• soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
• youthנֹ֫עַרnô‛ar · youthH5290

Cross-references for Job 36:14

• Job 15:32It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
• Job 21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
• Job 22:16Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
• Genesis 38:7And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah, and Jehovah slew him.
• Leviticus 10:1And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
• Psalms 55:23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
• Genesis 19:5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.
• Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.

Commentaries on Job 36:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14They die in youth - Exactly what the psalmist says, "Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days," Psalm 55:23. Literally, the words of Elihu are, "They shall die in the youth of their soul." Their life is among the unclean - בקדשים bakedeshim, among the whores, harlots, prostitutes, and sodomites. In this sense the word is used, though it also signifies consecrated persons; but we know that in idolatry characters of this kind were…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14They die in youth - Margin, “Their soul dieth.” The word “soul” or “life” in the Hebrew is used to denote oneself. The meaning is, that they would soon be cut down, and share the lot of the openly wicked. If they amended their lives they might be spared, and continue to live in prosperity and honor; if they did not, whether openly wicked or hypocrites. they would be early cut off. And their life is amnong the unclean - Margin, “Sodomites.” The idea is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Elihu here shows that God acts as righteous Governor. He is always ready to defend those that are injured. If our eye is ever toward God in duty, his eye will be ever upon us in mercy, and, when we are at the lowest, will not overlook us. God intends, when he afflicts us, to discover past sins to us, and to bring them to our remembrance. Also, to dispose our hearts to be taught: affliction makes people willing to learn, through the grace of…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1513-15. Same sentiment as Job 36:11, 12, expanded. hypocrites--or, the ungodly [Maurer]; but "hypocrites" is perhaps a distinct class from the openly wicked (Job 36:12). heap up wrath--of God against themselves (Ro 2:5). Umbreit translates, "nourish their wrath against God," instead of "crying" unto Him. This suits well the parallelism and the Hebrew. But the English Version gives a good parallelism, "hypocrites" answering to "cry not" (Job 27:8, 10)…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 36:14

• Death
• Hypocrisy
• Sodomites

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Commentaries on Job 36

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings