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Job 27:14
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Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword;his descendants will never have enough food.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.
They may have many children, but the sword will kill them. Their children who are left will never have enough to eat.
If his children increase—it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword; And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.
Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.
Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword;And his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death.
if his sons become many, they go to the sword; and his children never have enough to eat.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
They may have many children, but all of them will be killed in war. Or their children will not have enough to eat.
If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
They may have many sons, but all will be killed in war; their children never have enough to eat.
If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring do not have enough to eat.
If his sons become numerous, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offpring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread.
And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If hise children ben multiplied, thei schulen be slayn in swerd; and hise sones sones schulen not be fillid with breed.
If his sons are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his children are multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
They may have many children, but the children will die in war or starve to death.
If he has many sons, they will be killed by the sword. And his children will not have enough bread to eat.
If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring have not enough to eat.
If his children be multiplied, for them, there is the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;
If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
If his sons multiply -- for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
"Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
children: Job 21:11, Job 21:12, Deuteronomy 28:32, Deuteronomy 28:41, 2 Kings 9:7, 2 Kings 9:8, 2 Kings 10:6-10, Esther 5:11, Esther 9:5-10, Psalms 109:13, Hosea 9:13, Hosea 9:14, Luke 23:29
his offspring: 1 Samuel 2:5
Reciprocal: Job 1:18 - Thy sons Job 4:11 - the stout Job 5:4 - children Job 20:28 - increase Psalms 17:14 - leave Psalms 37:9 - evildoers Psalms 37:28 - but Hosea 9:12 - yet
Cross-References
Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me,
and prepare for me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat; that I may bless you before I die."
'Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food, that I may eat it, and bless you before the LORD before I die.'
Go to the flock, and fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he loves;
and she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
He also prepared savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."
Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!
"But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If his children be multiplied,.... As it is possible they may; this is one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that proud oppressor, left ten sons behind him, and wicked Ahab had seventy, Esther 9:12:
[it is] for the sword; for them that kill with the sword, as the Targum; to be killed with it, as in the two instances above; Haman's ten sons were slain by the sword of the Jews, Esther 9:13, and Ahab's seventy sons by the sword of Jehu, or those he ordered to slay them,
2 Kings 10:7. The children of such wicked persons are oftentimes put to death, either by the sword of the enemy, fall in battle in an hostile way, which is one of God's four sore judgments, Ezekiel 14:21; or, leading a most wicked life, commit such capital crimes as bring them into the hand of the civil magistrate, who bears not the sword in vain, but is the minister of God, a revengeful executioner of wrath on wicked men; or else they die by the sword of the murderer, being brought into the world for such, and through their riches become their prey, Hosea 9:13; or if neither of these is the case, yet they at last, let them prosper as they will, fall a sacrifice to the glittering sword of divine justice, whetted and drawn in wrath against them; the sword of the enemy seems chiefly intended:
and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread; such of them as die not by the sword shall perish by famine, which is another of God's sore judgments; though this may respect the grandchildren of wicked men, whom God visits to the third and fourth generation; the Targum paraphrases it, his children's children, and so Sephorno; to which agrees the Vulgate Latin version: the sense is, that the posterity of such wicked men, when they are dead and gone, shall be so reduced as to beg their bread, and shall not have a sufficiency of that for the support of nature, but shall die for want of food.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If 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 maintained that if a wicked man was blessed with a numerous family, and seemed to be prosperous, it was only that the punishment might come the more heavily upon him, for that they certainly would be cut off; see Job 18:19-20; Job 20:10.
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread - This sentiment was advanced by Zophar, Job 20:10; see the notes at that verse.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 27:14. If 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.
