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Job 27:14-16
New English Translation
Job 27:14-16
New English Translation
14 If his children increase—it is for the sword![a]
His offspring never have enough to eat.[b]
15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague,[c]
and their[d] widows do not mourn for them.
16 If he piles up silver like dust
and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
Footnotes
- Job 27:14 tn R. Gordis (Job, 294) identifies this as a breviloquence. Cf. Ps 92:8 where the last two words also constitute the apodosis.
- Job 27:14 tn Heb “will not be satisfied with bread/food.”
- Job 27:15 tn The text says “will be buried in/by death.” A number of passages in the Bible use “death” to mean the plague that kills (see Jer 15:2; Isa 28:3; and BDB 89 s.v. ב 2.a). In this sense it is like the English expression for the plague, “the Black Death.”
- Job 27:15 tc The LXX has “their widows” to match the plural, and most commentators harmonize in the same way.
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