Job 14:21
His children acquire honor, but he knoweth it not: and they are esteemed little, but he perceiveth nothing of them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
22But his body. on him, feeleth pain, and his soul will mourn for him.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:20And at the moment of her dying, the women that stood around her spoke [unto her], Fear not; for a son hast thou born. But she answered not, nor did she take it to heart.
Psalms 39:6(39:7) As nothing but a shadowy image doth man walk about, yea, for vanity only do all make a noise: he heapeth up his gains, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die; but the dead know not the least; nor have they longer any reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Isaiah 63:16For thou art our father; for Abraham knoweth nothing of us, and Israel recogniseth us not: 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 →