Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, but he knoweth it not; Or they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22But his flesh shall have pain for itself alone; For itself alone shall his soul mourn.
Cross References
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely he disquieteth himself in vain; He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, and there is no more to them any advantage, for their memory is forgotten.
Isaiah 63:16Thou, surely, art our father; Abraham is ignorant of us, And Israel knoweth us not. Thou, O Jehovah, art our father; Our deliverer wast thou of old.
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 →