Job 14:21

¹⁹ as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

²⁰ You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

²² He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
KJV: His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
WEB: His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
ASV: His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
DARBY: His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
BLB: His sons gain honor, and he does not know [it]; and they are diminished, and he does not perceive it.

ÅB: Kommer hans barn til ære, da vet han det ikke, og blir de ringeaktet, da blir han det ikke var.
OTB: Deres barn oppnår ære, men de vet det ikke;
Eller de blir ubetydelige, og de oppfatter det ikke.
B1930: Kommer hans barn til ære, da vet han det ikke, og blir de ringeaktet, da blir han det ikke var.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18–19
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
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Isaiah 63:16
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
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Isaiah 39:7–8
And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
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Psalms 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
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1 Samuel 4:20
As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed.
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