Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If he has many children, their destiny is to die by the sword, and his descendants won't have enough food.
New American Standard Bible
And his
King James Version
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Holman Bible
his descendants will never have enough food.
A Conservative Version
If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
American Standard Version
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Amplified
“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.
Bible in Basic English
If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
Darby Translation
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
Julia Smith Translation
If his sons shall be multiplied, for then the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
King James 2000
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If their children multiply, [it is] for [the] sword, and his offspring {do not have enough to eat}.
Modern King James verseion
If his sons are multiplied, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.
NET Bible
If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
New Heart English Bible
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
The Emphasized Bible
If his children be multiplied, for them, there is the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;
Webster
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
World English Bible
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Youngs Literal Translation
If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.
Themes
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Offspring » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
13 "This is what a wicked person inherits from God, and what the ruthless will receive from the Almighty: 14 If he has many children, their destiny is to die by the sword, and his descendants won't have enough food. 15 Those who do survive him disease will bury, and his widow won't even weep.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41
You'll bear sons and daughters, but they won't belong to you because they'll go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch. You won't be able to approach them at all, and you'll be powerless to help.
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who had an abundance of bread now hire themselves out, and those who were hungry hunger no more. While the barren woman gives birth to seven children, she who had many children languishes.
2 Kings 9:7-8
You are to attack the household of your master Ahab, so I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, as well as the blood of all of the servants of the LORD that has been spilled at Jezebel's orders.
2 Kings 10:6-10
But Jehu wrote them another letter: "If you're loyal to me, and if you intend to obey my commands, then bring the heads of your master's sons and meet me in Jezreel about this time tomorrow."
Esther 5:11
Then Haman told them about his splendid wealth, the number of his sons, all the ways the king had honored him, and that he had promoted him above all the other officials and ministers of the king.
Esther 9:5-10
The Jewish people struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did with their enemies as they pleased.
Job 15:22
He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.
Job 20:10
His sons will make amends to the poor; their hands will return his wealth.
Job 21:11-12
They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about,
Psalm 109:13
May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.
Hosea 9:13-14
Ephraim, as I see it, is like Tyre, planted in a comfortable place; Ephraim will bear children but they will be executed."
Luke 23:29
because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'