Job 27:14
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
15Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
2 Kings 9:7You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Esther 9:6In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
Job 15:22He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
Job 21:11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
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 →