Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 27 connects to 10 cross-references. Job solemnly vows to maintain his integrity and will not concede his righteousness to his friends as long as he breathes. He ironically repeats the friends' doctrine of the wicked man's fate — wealth that passes to the righteous, terror …
Other Translations
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his sons multiply--for them <FI>is<Fi> a sword. And his offspring <FI>are<Fi> not satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread.
If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
Cross References
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing …
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
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And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the …
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the …
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken …
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake …
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things …
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what …
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil …