Job 27:14

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

American Standard Version (1901)

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Bible in Basic English

If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

Free Bible Version

even if they have many children, they will experience violent deaths or die of starvation.

King James (Authorized) Version

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Translation for Translators

Even if they have many children, many of those children will die in wars [MTY], and their other children will die because they do not have enough food to eat.

Unlocked Literal Bible

If his children multiply, it is for the sword; his offspring will never have enough food.

Noah Webster Bible

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

World English Bible

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

Young's Literal Translation

If his sons multiply — for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

Context

The Wicked Man’s Portion

¹³This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food. ¹⁵His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

Summary

In this verse, Job speaks about the fate of the wicked, highlighting that even if they have many children, they are destined for the sword and their offspring will not have enough to eat. Job's words reflect the consequences of living a life of sin and disobedience to God, emphasizing that material wealth and prosperity cannot protect the unrighteous from the judgment of God. This verse serves as a reminder of the ultimate justice and accountability that awaits those who choose to walk in wickedness, despite any temporary success they may experience in this world.

Commentary

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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.

John Gill Bible Commentary

Those that remain of him,.... Of the wicked man after his death; or such that remain, and have escaped the sword and famine: shall be buried in death: the pestilence, emphatically called death by the Hebrews, as by us the mortality, see Rev 6:8. This is another of God's sore public judgments wicked men, and is such a kind of death, by reason of the contagion of it, that a person is buried as soon as dead almost, being infectious to keep him; and so Mr. Broughton translates the words, "his remnant shall be buried as soon as they are dead;'' or the disease of which such die being so very infectious sometimes, no one dares to bury them for fear of catching it, and so they lie unburied; which some take to be the sense of the phrase, either that they shall be hurried away to the grave, and so not be embalmed and lie in state, and have an honourable and pompous funeral, or that they shall have none at all, their death will be all the burial they shall have: or else the sense is, they shall die such a death as that death shall be their grave; and they shall have no other, as the men of the old world that were drowned in the flood, Gen 7:23; and Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, Exo 15:4; and Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, who were swallowed up in the earth, Num 16:27; and such as are devoured by wild beasts; and if this last could be thought to be meant, we have all the four sore judgments of God in this verse and Job 27:14, sword, famine, pestilence, and evil beasts, see Eze 14:21, and his widows shall not weep; leaving more than one behind him, polygamy being frequent in those times; or else these are his sons' wives, left widows by them, as Bar Tzemach thinks, they being the persons immediately spoken of, dying by various deaths before mentioned; but whether they be his widows, or theirs, they shall weep for neither of them; either because they themselves will be cut off with them; or their husbands dying shameful deaths, lamentation would be forbidden; or they would not be able to weep through the astonishment and stupor they should be seized with at their death; or having lived such miserable and uncomfortable lives with them, they should be so far from lamenting their death, that they should, as Jarchi interprets it, rejoice at it; the Septuagint version is, "no one shall have mercy on their widows.''

Job 27:14

The Wicked Man’s Portion

Scripture
Sermons
Commentary

Berean Standard Bible

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

American Standard Version (1901)

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Bible in Basic English

If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

Free Bible Version

even if they have many children, they will experience violent deaths or die of starvation.

King James (Authorized) Version

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Translation for Translators

Even if they have many children, many of those children will die in wars [MTY], and their other children will die because they do not have enough food to eat.

Unlocked Literal Bible

If his children multiply, it is for the sword; his offspring will never have enough food.

Noah Webster Bible

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

World English Bible

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

Young's Literal Translation

If his sons multiply — for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Job 27:14

Verse

Context

The Wicked Man’s Portion

Summary

Commentary

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Job 27:14

The Wicked Man’s Portion

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary