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Job 27:14
14Wicked people may have many children, but they will die in war. Their children will never have enough food to eat.
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
12You yourselves have all seen what God has done. So you should stop saying all these useless things! 13I will tell you what Almighty God does to wicked people. He punishes cruel people as they deserve. Wicked people may have many children, but they will die in war. Their children will never have enough food to eat. 15Illness will kill any children who continue to live. Their widows will not weep when they are dead. 16Wicked people may have lots of money. They may have silver like heaps of sand. They may have more clothes than they could ever wear.
Read all of Job 27Job 27:14 word by word
אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 27:14
- Job 21:11Their children run and play. They jump like young lambs.
- Deuteronomy 28:32Foreign people will take your children away to be their slaves. Every day, you will look for them to come back to you. But you will have no power to do anything.
- 2 Kings 9:7You will destroy the family of your master, Ahab. In this way I will punish Ahab's wife Jezebel, because she killed the prophets and other people who served me.
- 2 Kings 10:6So Jehu wrote a second letter to them. It said, ‘If you are ready to help me and you will obey me, do this: Bring the heads of your master's sons here to me in Jezreel. Bring them by this time tomorrow.’ At that time, important leaders of the city were taking care of the king's 70 sons.
- Esther 5:11Haman told them how rich he was, and how many sons he had. He told them of all the things that the king had done to give him great honour. He told them that he was now more important than all the king's other rulers and officers.
- Esther 9:5So when the day arrived, the Jews could do what they wanted to their enemies. They used their swords to attack them and to kill them.
- Psalms 109:13Remove all the descendants in his family. When his children die, may nobody remember his family any more!
- Hosea 9:13At one time, I saw that Ephraim's land was a beautiful place, like Tyre. But now Ephraim's people must bring out their children for an enemy to kill them.’
- Luke 23:29Listen! Days will come when people will say, “It is better for those women that could not have babies. Those women that never had babies to feed are the happy ones!”
- 1 Samuel 2:5People who had plenty of food to eat have to work for it now. But the people who were hungry have enough food now. Women who could not have any children have now given birth to seven children. But those who had many children are now alone.
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
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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
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