Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
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;
Julia Smith Translation
If his sons shall be multiplied, for then 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.
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 is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. 14 If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. 15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41
You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.
2 Kings 9:7-8
You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord's servants.
2 Kings 10:6-10
He wrote them a second letter, saying, "If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, then take the heads of your master's sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow." Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent men of the city were raising them.
Esther 5:11
Haman then recounted to them his fabulous wealth, his many sons, and how the king had magnified him and exalted him over the king's other officials and servants.
Esther 9:5-10
The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.
Job 15:22
He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;
Job 20:10
His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
Job 21:11-12
They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.
Psalm 109:13
May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
Hosea 9:13-14
Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.
Luke 23:29
For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'