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Job 27:14

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

KJV

Si multiplicati fuerint filii ejus, in gladio erunt, et nepotes ejus non saturabuntur pane :

Vulgate

ἐὰν δὲ πολλοὶ γένωνται οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν, εἰς σφαγὴν ἔσονται· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ἀνδρωθῶσιν, προσαιτήσουσιν·

LXX

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

ASV

אִם יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣י/ו לְמוֹ חָ֑רֶב וְ֝/צֶאֱצָאָ֗י/ו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ לָֽחֶם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הַרְבֵּ֥ה
hrbh
verb · 233×
הָ
h
noun · 11×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
יִֽשְׂבַּֽע
yshb'
verb · 96×
לְמוֹ
lmv
preposition · 4×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 28:41 — Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
  • Job 20:10 — His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
  • Job 20:28 — The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
  • Luke 23:29 — For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
  • Ps 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of
  • Ps 37:28 — For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.