Job 27:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.”
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“Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If his sons multiply--for them <FI>is<Fi> a sword. And his offspring <FI>are<Fi> not satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 27:14 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
- 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 9:7And 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.
- 2 Kings 10:6Then 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 all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
- 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.
- Esther 9:5The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
- Esther 9:6In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
- Esther 9:10They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
- Job 20:10His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
- Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
- 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!’
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