Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
14. 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 little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They spend their days in wealth,” ch. Job 21:8 seq.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 27:14-18; the next are those that would come upon himself, Job 27:19-23. All the sentiments here expressed are found in the various speeches of the friends of Job, and, according to the interpretation suggested above, this is designed to represent their sentiments. They maintained that if a wicked man was blessed with a numerous family, and seemed to be prosperous, it was only that the punishment might come the more heavily upon him, for that they certainly would be cut off; see Job 18:19-20; Job 20:10.
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread – This sentiment was advanced by Zophar, Job 20:10; see the notes at that verse.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes 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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. His family only increases toperish by sword or famine (Jer 18:21;Job 5:20, the converse).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on 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 seventy, Es 9:12:
[it is] for the sword; for them that kill with the sword, as the Targum; to be killed with it, as in the two instances above; Haman’s ten sons were slain by the sword of the Jews, Es 9:13, and Ahab’s seventy sons by the sword of Jehu, or those he ordered to slay them,
2Ki 10:7. The children of such wicked persons are oftentimes put to death, either by the sword of the enemy, fall in battle in an hostile way, which is one of God’s four sore judgments, Eze 14:21; or, leading a most wicked life, commit such capital crimes as bring them into the hand of the civil magistrate, who bears not the sword in vain, but is the minister of God, a revengeful executioner of wrath on wicked men; or else they die by the sword of the murderer, being brought into the world for such, and through their riches become their prey, Ho 9:13; or if neither of these is the case, yet they at last, let them prosper as they will, fall a sacrifice to the glittering sword of divine justice, whetted and drawn in wrath against them; the sword of the enemy seems chiefly intended:
and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread; such of them as die not by the sword shall perish by famine, which is another of God’s sore judgments; though this may respect the grandchildren of wicked men, whom God visits to the third and fourth generation; the Targum paraphrases it, his children’s children, and so Sephorno; to which agrees the Vulgate Latin version: the sense is, that the posterity of such wicked men, when they are dead and gone, shall be so reduced as to beg their bread, and shall not have a sufficiency of that for the support of nature, but shall die for want of food.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Strophe b Having fully established his main position, that the virtuous may suffer, for instance as in his case, (2-10,) Job proceeds to give in detail the sufferings of a portion of the wicked in this present life. In admitting the sufferings of some of the wicked, he magnanimously proffers a ground of conciliation, with an implied condition that the friends should also admit the sufferings of the righteous, which they in the obstinacy of silence fail to do, Job 27:14-18.
14. His children Calamity hangs over his home also; his children perish, too, some by war and some by famine. Job’s glowing description of a godless family in Job 21:8, he now qualifies by declaring their doom. It is painfully natural that desolate Job should first speak of the children of the wicked.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 27:14 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, for instance, 2Ki 10:1 , whom he had begotten after God had threatened to root out his posterity. He, therefore, as it were to cross the Almighty, gives himself so much the more strenuously to the work of generation; but this was (like Ephraim) to bring forth children to the murderer, Hos 4:13 . See the like of Ahaziah and his forty-two brethren slain at the shearing house. 2Ki 10:14
And his offspring
Shall not be satisfied with bread
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
children = sons.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
children: Job 21:11, Job 21:12, Deu 28:32, Deu 28:41, 2Ki 9:7, 2Ki 9:8, 2Ki 10:6-10, Est 5:11, Est 9:5-10, Psa 109:13, Hos 9:13, Hos 9:14, Luk 23:29
his offspring: 1Sa 2:5
Reciprocal: Job 1:18 – Thy sons Job 4:11 – the stout Job 5:4 – children Job 20:28 – increase Psa 17:14 – leave Psa 37:9 – evildoers Psa 37:28 – but Hos 9:12 – yet
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 27:14-15. 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 that sword and famine; shall be buried in death Shall be reduced to so great a degree of misery, says Schultens, that where they die, there they shall rot, and no person shall bury them: they shall have death itself, (so he renders the text,) for their sepulchre. It is put in antithesis, or by way of contrast to the monuments of the rich. And his widows For they had many wives; shall not weep Because they, as well as other persons, groaned under his tyranny, and, therefore, rejoice in their deliverance from it.