Job 27:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and their offspring have not enough to eat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring will not have sufficient bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ If their children increase, they belong to the sword; their offspring won’t have enough bread.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ If his sons should happen to increase, they will be for the sword, and his grandsons will not be satisfied with bread.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword: and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

Job 27:14 Cross References

Esther 5:11

and Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king.

Job 15:22

They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.

Job 18:19

They have no offspring or descendant among their people and no survivor where they used to live.

Job 20:10

Their children will seek the favor of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.

Job 4:11

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

Psalm 109:10

May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit.

Psalm 109:13

May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.

Luke 23:29

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are fat with spoil. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.