Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If his sons shall be multiplied, for then the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
New American Standard Bible
And his
King James Version
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Holman Bible
his descendants will never have enough food.
International Standard Version
If he has many children, their destiny is to die by the sword, and his descendants won't have enough food.
A Conservative Version
If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
American Standard Version
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Amplified
“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.
Bible in Basic English
If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
Darby Translation
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
King James 2000
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If their children multiply, [it is] for [the] sword, and his offspring {do not have enough to eat}.
Modern King James verseion
If his sons are multiplied, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.
NET Bible
If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
New Heart English Bible
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
The Emphasized Bible
If his children be multiplied, for them, there is the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;
Webster
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
World English Bible
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Youngs Literal Translation
If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.
Themes
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Offspring » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
13 This the portion of an unjust man with God, and the inheritance of the terrible they shall take from the Almighty. 14 If his sons shall be multiplied, for then the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 His surviving one shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41
And thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be to thee, for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters given to another people, and thine eyes seeing and failing for them all the day: and nothing for the strength of thy hand.
1 Samuel 2:5
And those filled with bread hired themselves out; and they hungering, ceased till the barren shall bring forth seven; and she multiplying sons languished.
2 Kings 9:7-8
And smite thou the house of Ahab thy lord, and I avenged the bloods of my servants the prophets, and the bloods of all the servants of Jehovah from the hand of Jezebel
2 Kings 10:6-10
And he will write to them a second letter, saying, If ye are for me and ye hear to my voice, take the heads of the men your lord's sons, and come to me according to the time to-morrow, to Jezreel. (And the king's sons seventy men with the great of the city growing up with them.)
Esther 5:11
And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king.
Esther 9:5-10
And the Jews will strike against all their enemies with the blow of the sword, and killing and destruction; and they will do according to their desire upon those hating them.
Job 15:22
He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword.
Job 20:10
The weak shall break his sons, and his hands shall turn back his wealth.
Job 21:11-12
They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap.
Psalm 109:13
His descendants shall be for cutting off; in the later generation their name shall be wiped off.
Hosea 9:13-14
Ephraim, as I saw for Tyre, was planted in a habitation: and Ephraim to bring forth his sons to him slaying.
Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never brought forth, and the breasts which gave not suck.