New English Translation
Job 27:14
14If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough 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
12If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk? 13This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. 15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. 16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
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 21:11They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.
- Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
- 2 Kings 9:7You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants.
- 2 Kings 10:6He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent men of the city were raising them.
- Esther 5:11Haman then recounted to them his fabulous wealth, his many sons, and how the king had magnified him and exalted him over the king’s other officials and servants.
- Esther 9:5The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.
- Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
- Hosea 9:13Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.
- Luke 23:29For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’
- 1 Samuel 2:5Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.
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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