Job 14:21
and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
20Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;
22But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:20And in her time she was at the point of death; and the women that stood by her, said to her, Fear not, for thou hast born a son: but she answered not, and her heart did not regard it.
Psalms 39:6O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.
Isaiah 63:16For thou art our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning.
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 →