Job 27:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Job 27:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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.
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. …

Topics

Capital and Labor Care Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling

Commentary

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

(vv. 11-23)

Job’s friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He…

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

(vv. 14)

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 n…