Job 36 · Verse 14

Job 36:14

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Job 36:14, King James Version

Job 36:14 in other translations

BSBThey die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
WEBThey die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
ASVThey die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.
YLTTheir soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
DARBYTheir soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
BBEThey come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.
WebsterThey die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

What does Job 36:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 36:13-15

13-15. 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"…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 They die in youth - Exactly what the psalmist says, "Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days," Psa 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 consecrated to Baal and Ashtaroth, Venus, Priapus, etc. Mr. Good translates the rabble. The Septuagint: Their life shalt be wounded by the angels.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 36:5-14

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…

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Job 36:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תָּמֹ֣תta.Motit diesH4191
בַּנֹּ֣עַרba.No.'arin <the> youthH5290
נַפְשָׁ֑םnaf.Shamself theirH5315
וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗םve.chai.ya.Tamand life theirH2416
בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים\׃ba.ke.de.Shimamong the temple prostitutesH6945

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Cross references for Job 36:14

  • Job 22:16

    Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

  • Job 15:32

    It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

  • Deuteronomy 23:17

    There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  • Psalms 55:23

    But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

  • Job 21:23-25

    One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

  • Genesis 19:24-25

    Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

  • Genesis 38:7-10

    And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

  • Genesis 19:5

    And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

  • Leviticus 10:1-2

    And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They die. Heb. Their soul dieth.
15:32; 21:23-25; 22:16; Ge 38:7-10; Le 10:1,2; Ps 55:23
unclean. or, sodomites.
Ge 19:5,24,25; De 23:17

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Context

  • Job 36:13

    But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

  • Job 36:14

    They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

  • Job 36:15

    He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

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Job 36:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Fallecerá el alma de ellos en su mocedad, y su vida entre los sodomitas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils mourront dans la jeunesse, et leur vie est parmi les hommes voués à l’infamie.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ihre Seele stirbt dahin in der Jugend, und ihr Leben unter den Schandbuben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Morietur in tempestate anima eorum, et vita eorum inter effeminatos.