Job 14:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Job 14:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Isaiah 63:16
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. …
Psalms 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Isaiah 39:7-8
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-22)

Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God’s justice, Job 14:16, 17. Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God’s wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. One striking trait is selected from the sad picture of the severance of the dead from all that passes in the world (Ec 9:5), namely, the utter separation of parents and children.