Job 27:14

¹² Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

¹³ This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

¹⁵ His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

Sammenlign

ÅB: Får han mange barn, så er de hjemfalt til sverdet; hans etterkommere får ikke brød å mette seg med.
OTB: Selv om hans barn er mange, er de bestemt for sverdet;
Og hans etterkommere vil ikke ha nok brød.
B1930: Får han mange barn, så er de hjemfalt til sverdet; hans ætlinger får ikke brød å mette sig med.

BSB: Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
KJV: If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
WEB: If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
ASV: If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
DARBY: If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
BLB: If his sons should increase, [it is] for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied [with] bread.

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Kryssreferanser

Deuteronomy 28:41
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
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Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
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Job 20:10
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
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Esther 5:11
Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
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Psalms 109:13
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
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1 Samuel 2:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
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Esther 9:5–10
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
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Hosea 9:13–14
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
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