The Wicked Man’s Portion
Job 27:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
- KJV
- Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
- WEB
- Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
- ASV
- Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.
- LSV
- His remnant are buried in death, || And his widows do not weep.
- YLT
- His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
- DBY
- Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.
- DRC
- They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
- GNV
- His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.
- JPS
- Those that remain of him shall be buried by pestilence, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
- LXXE
- And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.
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- Written (Ketiv): שְׂרִידוֹ (“survivor his”). Read aloud (Qere): שְׂ֭רִידָיו (“survivors his”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads שְׂ֭רִידָו; read aloud (Qere) reads שְׂ֭רִידָיו (“survivors his”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- שרידו בַּמָּ֣וֶת יִקָּבֵ֑רוּ וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃Read aloud as (qere): שְׂ֭רִידָיו
- LXX-Br
- Οἱ δὲ περιόντες αὐτοῦ ἐν θανάτῳ τελευτήσουσι, χήρας δὲ αὐτῶν οὐδεὶς ἐλεήσει.
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- Psalms 78:64His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- 1 Kings 16:3–4So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat: Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be…
- Jeremiah 22:18Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his…
- 1 Kings 21:21–24This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free. I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and…
- 1 Kings 14:10–11Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it…
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