Job 27:14

In 11 translations

BSB

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

KJV

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

WEB

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

ASV

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

LSV

If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

YLT

If his sons multiply — for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

DBY

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;

DRC

If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

GNV

If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

JPS

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough.

LXXE

And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν δἐ πολλοὶ γένωνται οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν, εἰς σφαγὴν ἔσονται· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ἀνδρωθῶσι, προσαιτήσουσιν.

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• Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
• Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
• Job 20:10His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
• Hosea 9:13–14I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter. Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
• Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
• 2 Kings 10:6–10Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in…
• Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
• Esther 9:5–10The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them. In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men, including…
• 1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
• 2 Kings 9:7–8And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel. The whole house of Ahab…
• Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
• Job 21:11–12They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about, singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
• Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

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