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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 27:14

Verse Job 27:14. If his children be multiplied] As numerous families were supposed to be a proof of the benediction of the Almighty, Job shows that this is not always the case; for the offspring of the wicked shall be partly cut off by violent deaths, and partly reduced to great poverty.

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See also Job 27:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED, IT IS FOR THE SWORD - That is, they shall be slain in war. The first calamities which it is here said would come upon a man, relate to his family Job 27:14; the next are...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION _ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_ 2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7) Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CHILDREN. sons....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The disastrous fate of the wicked man at the hand of God. Job 27:7-10 drew a contrast between the internal state of the mind of the speaker and that of the sinner; in these verses the contrast is pur...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The utter destruction of the wicked man is exhibited in three turns: his children and descendants are destined for the sword, and become the prey of famine and pestilence (Job 27:13); his wealth and p...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    With the sentiment of this verse compare Job's former words in regard to the wicked, "Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. They send forth their l...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS, I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23) TEXT 27:7-23 7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. 8 For what is th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WILL TEACH YOU BY THE HAND OF GOD: THAT WHICH IS WITH THE ALMIGHTY WILL I NOT CONCEAL._ These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (notes, Job 21:22; Job 24:22). They therefore seem to b...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Perhaps Job thought that these children would be as evil as their father. Or perhaps Job thought that the children would suffer because of their father’s evil deeds. The Bible teaches that God will pu...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 27 JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמֹו ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝ צֶאֱ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE JUSTICE OF GOD Job 27:1 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job 27:1. He denies the charge of be...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad. The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply. This...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXVII. _ Bread. Septuagint, "if they grow up to manhood, they shall beg," Psalm xxxvi 25. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (11) В¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. (12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? (13) This is the por...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED,.... As it is possible they may; this is one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that proud oppressor, left ten sons behind him, and wicked Ahab had...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. Ver. 14. _If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword_] As were Ahab's seventy sons,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _It is for the sword_ That they may be cut off by the sword, either of war or of justice: _and his offspring_, &c. Shall be starved, or shall want necessaries. _Those that remain of him_ Who survive t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If his children be multiplied, their great number being considered a proof of the divine blessing, IT IS FOR THE SWORD, that being the first great scourge in the hand of God; AND HIS OFFSPRING SHALL N...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (vv.1-7) In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has already won the debat...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IT IS FOR THE SWORD; that they may be cut off by the sword, either of war or of justice. SHALL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD; shall be starved, or want necessaries. A figure called _meiosis_....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 27:14 children H1121 multiplied H7235 (H8799) for H3926 sword H2719 offspring H6631 satisfied H7646 (H8799) bread...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the hypocrite should engage us to be upright. KEY WORD: Hypocr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive speech. Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will teach you by the hand of God._ GOD’S TREATMENT OF WICKED MEN Looking at Job’s lecture or address, we have to notice two things. I. Its introduction. The eleventh and twelfth verses may be r...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_ Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 27:1 This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:5; 2 Kings 10:6; 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 9:8; Deuteronomy 28:32

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