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 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.