Job 14:21

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

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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 39:6Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

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. Know nothing more... Viz., as to the transactions of this world, in which they have now no part, unless it be revealed to them; neither have they any knowledge or power now of doing any thing to secure their eternal state, (if they have not taken care of it in their lifetime:) nor can they now procure themselves any good, as the living always may do, by the grace of God.

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. Abraham hath not know us, etc... That is, Abraham will not now acknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou, O Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be called our parent in comparison with thee.

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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