Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:14 in other translations
| BSB | Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food. |
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| WEB | If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread. |
| ASV | If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. |
| YLT | If his sons multiply--for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread. |
| DARBY | If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread; |
| BBE | If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. |
| Webster | If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. |
What does Job 27:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 27:11-23
11-23. 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:11-23
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…
Job 27:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:14
- Deuteronomy 28:41
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
- Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
- Job 20:10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- Esther 5:11
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
- Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- 1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
- Esther 9:5-10
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them. And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, …
- Hosea 9:13-14
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
- Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
- Job 21:11-12
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- 2 Kings 10:6-10
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up. And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel. And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning. And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these? …
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Context
- Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job 27:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si sus hijos fueren multiplicados, serán para el cuchillo; y sus pequeños no se hartarán de pan; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si ses fils se multiplient, c’est pour l’épée, et ses descendants ne sont pas rassasiés de pain. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn seine Kinder sich mehren, so ist es für das Schwert, und seine Sprößlinge, -sie haben nicht satt Brot. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si multiplicati fuerint filii ejus, in gladio erunt, et nepotes ejus non saturabuntur pane: |