THEOSISJob 27:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.
- Job 20:10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.
- Luke 23:29For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.
- Deut 28:32May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.
- Esth 5:11And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants.
- 1 Sam 2:5They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.
- Esth 9:5So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:
- Esth 9:10And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of their goods.