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Job 27:14 Cross-References
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“If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.”
Job 27:14 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword—Job describes the futility of the wicked person's legacy. The Hebrew verb רָבָה (ravah, multiply) ironically inverts the covenant blessing of Genesis 1:28; what should be blessing becomes curse. For the sword (לְמוֹ־חֶרֶב, lemo-cherev) indicates violent death awaits numerous offspring—quantity provides no security. The parallelism intensifies: his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread uses שָׂבַע (sava, be satisfied/filled), the same word used of divine satisfaction (Psalm 17:15). Job argues that wickedness produces generational futility...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 27:14
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“but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.”
“His children shall seek to please the poor”
“the days are coming in which they will say”
“saying”
“that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets”
“and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.”
“the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.”
“like Tyre”
“Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.”
“They send forth their little ones like a flock”