Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
KJV
Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
Vulgate
πολλῶν δὲ γενομένων τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ οὐκ οἶδεν, ἐὰν δὲ ὀλίγοι γένωνται, οὐκ ἐπίσταται·
LXX
His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
ASV
יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָי/ו וְ/לֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝/יִצְעֲר֗וּ וְֽ/לֹא יָבִ֥ין לָֽ/מוֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
יִצְעָֽרוּ
yts'rv
verb · 3×
יָבִ֥ין
ybyn
verb · 168×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִכְבָּ֔ד
nkbd
verb · 115×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 2:18 — Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
- Eccl 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
- Eccl 9:5 — For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
- Eccl 9:5 — For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
- Isa 63:16 — Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
- Isa 63:16 — Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
- Job 24:24 — They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
- Ps 146:4 — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.