Job 14:21

Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.

22But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:20And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them not, nor gave heed to them.

Psalms 39:6Behold thou hast made my days measurable : and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity : every man living.

Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 63:16For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art 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 →

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