Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
20Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away.
22But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:20And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Fear not, for thou have brought forth a son. But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Isaiah 63:16For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.
Matthew Henry on Job 14:17-22
Complainings of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. 18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. 19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him… Read the whole commentary →