Job 27:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ”

• Job 27:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 ; th...

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• Job 27:14 - 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...

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• Job 27:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  children . sons.

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• Job 27:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. If his children be multiplied - As numerous families were supposed to be a proof of the bene...

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• Job 27:14 - 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 21:22-33 ; Job 24:22-25 ). They the...

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• Job 27:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Eighth Speech (concluded) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1-6 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said ( Job 13:16 ) of his determination not to admit that he was...

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• Job 27:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1-14 ; Job 27:1-23 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the...

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• Job 27:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Justice of God Job 27:1-23 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews his protestations of integrity, Job 27:1-10 . He denies th...

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• Job 27:14 - 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. Th...

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• Job 27:14 - 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 po...

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• Job 27:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 h...

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• Job 27:14 - 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...

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• Job 27:14 - 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 surv...

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• Job 27:14 - L. 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 d...

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• Job 27:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Heritage of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that whi...

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• Job 27:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 .

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• Job 27:14 - 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, the...

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• Job 27:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Job 27:14 - 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 h...

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• Job 27:14 - 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...

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• Job 27:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 27:1-18 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 possibl...

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• Job 27:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly.

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• Job 27:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:5 ; 2 Kings 10:6-10 ; 2 Kings 9:7 ; 2 Kings 9:8 ; Deuteronomy 28:32 ; Deuteronomy 28:41 ; Esther 5:11 ; Esther 9:5-10 ; Hosea 9:13 ; Hosea 9:14 ; Job 21:11 ; Job 21:12 ; Luke...

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