Job 14:21

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And whether his children come to worship or no, he can not tell: And if they be men of lowe degree, he knoweth not.

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  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For they that be liuing knowe that they shall dye: but they that be dead knowe nothing, neither deserue they any more, for their memoriall is forgotten.
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Yet art thou our father: for Abraham knoweth vs not, neither is Israel acquainted with vs: but thou Lorde art our father and redeemer, and thy name is euerlasting.
  • Isa 39:7-8 : 7 Yea and part of thy sonnes that shall come of thee, & whom thou shalt beget, shalbe caryed hence, and become gelded chamberlaynes in the kyng of Babylons court. 8 Then sayde Hezekia to Esai, Good is the worde of God which thou hast tolde me. He sayd moreouer. For there shalbe peace and faythfulnesse in my tyme.
  • 1 Sam 4:20 : 20 And about the tyme of her death, the women that stoode about her, saide vnto her: Feare not, for thou hast borne a sonne. But she aunswered not, nor regarded it.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.
  • Eccl 2:18-19 : 18 Yea I was weery of my labour which I had taken vnder the sunne, because I shoulde be fayne to leaue them vnto another man that commeth after me: 19 And who knoweth whether he shalbe a wise man or a foole? And yet shall he be lorde of all my laboures which I with such wisdome haue taken vnder the sunne: This is also a vayne thyng.

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    9 So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

    10 His children shalbe faine to agree with the poore, and his handes shall restore their goodes.

    11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.

  • 14 For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng.

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    19 God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it.

    20 Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie.

    21 For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?

  • 9 Straungers haue deuoured his strength, and he regardeth it not: he waxeth full of gray heeres, yet wyll he not knowe it.

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    17 For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym.

    18 For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man: and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of thee.

    19 But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers: and shall neuer see lyght.

    20 A man is in an honourable state, but he wyll not vnderstande it: he is lyke herein vnto bruite beastes that perishe.

  • 6 Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

  • 14 Nowe if this man get a sonne also, that seeth all his fathers sinnes whiche he hath done, and feareth, neither doth suche like:

  • 20 Thou preuaylest still against him, so that he passeth away: thou chaungest his estate and puttest him from thee.

  • 21 He that delicately bryngeth vp his seruaunt from a chylde, shall make hym his maister at length.

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    17 His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

    18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.

  • 20 They that come after him, shalbe astonyed at his day, and they that go before shalbe afrayde.

  • 4 His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.

  • 20 A wyse sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolishe man dispiseth his mother.

  • 21 Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome.

  • 21 A feareful sounde is euer in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.

  • 23 After pryde commeth a fall: but a lowly spirite bryngeth great worshyp.

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    4 For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.

    5 He that speaketh flatterie to his friend, the eyes of his children shall fayle.

  • 25 An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother.

  • 18 If any man haue a sonne that is stubburne and disobedient, that he wyll not hearken vnto the voyce of his father and voyce of his mother, and they haue chastened hym, and he woulde not hearken vnto them:

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    14 If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread.

    15 His remnaunt shalbe buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.

  • 15 But now because his anger hath not visited, neither called men to accompt with great extremitie:

  • 4 For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darknesse, and his name is forgotten.

  • 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.

  • 23 And though they gaue him to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

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    31 Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth?

    32 Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape of the dead.

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  • 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.

  • 13 Therfore shall sorowes come vpon him as vpon a woman that trauayleth: an vndiscrete sonne is he, els woulde he not stande styll at the tyme of birth of children.

  • 21 He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.

  • 21 He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.

  • 21 For his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goinges.

  • 24 Notwithstanding, thou wilt not stretch out thyne hand against him that is in the graue: shal men crie out against him that is in destruction?

  • 11 He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it.

  • 13 A poore chylde beyng wise, is better then an olde kyng that doteth, and can not beware in tyme to come.

  • 22 For their destruction shall rise sodainlye: and who knoweth the aduersitie that may come from them both?

  • 29 He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.

  • 37 But laste of all, he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying: they wyll stande in awe of my sonne.

  • 7 The steppes of his strength shalbe restrayned, and his owne counsaile shall cast him downe: