Job 27:14
even if they have many children, they will experience violent deaths or die of starvation.
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In Context
15Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn for them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41You will have sons and daughters, but you won't have them for long, because they will be taken off into captivity as slaves.
2 Kings 9:7You are going to destroy the family of Ahab, your master. You will avenge the blood of my prophets and the blood of all the Lord's servants killed by Jezebel.
Esther 5:11Haman went into great detail about how much money and possessions he had, and how many children, and how the king had made him so important by promoting him above all the other nobles and officials.
Esther 9:6In the fortress of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
Job 15:22They don't believe they will escape the darkness—they know a sword is waiting for them.
Job 21:11They send out their little ones like lambs to play; their children dance around.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →