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, all of you have seen it; Why then do you talk of nothing? 13“This is the portion of a wicked person from God, And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty: Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread. 15His survivors will be buried because of the plague, And their widows will not be able to weep. 16Though he piles up silver like dust, And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

Job 27:14 word by word

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

• Thoughאִם'im · ifH518
• his sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• areרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• for the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• descendantsצֶאֱצָאtse'ĕtsâ' · offspringH6631
• will not beשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• with breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899

Cross-references for Job 27:14

• Job 21:11They send out their boys like the flock, And their children dance.
• Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing you can do.
• 2 Kings 9:7And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
• 2 Kings 10:6Then he wrote them a letter a second time, saying, “If you are on my side, and will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel about this time tomorrow.” Now the king’s sons, seventy men, were with the great people of the city, who were raising them.
• Esther 5:11Then Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and every occasion on which the king had honored him and how he had promoted him above the officials and servants of the king.
• Esther 9:5So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
• Psalms 109:13May his descendants be eliminated; May their name be wiped out in a following generation.
• Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pasture like Tyre; But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.
• Luke 23:29For behold, days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are those who cannot bear, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have not nursed.’
• 1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, But those who were hungry cease to be hungry. Even the infertile woman gives birth to seven, But she who has many children languishes.

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