Job 27:14

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Job 27:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

14 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,

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Job 21:11

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Job 21:12

singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

2 Kings 9:7

And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.

2 Kings 9:8

The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.

2 Kings 10:6

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

2 Kings 10:7

And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:8

When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

2 Kings 10:9

The next morning, Jehu went out and stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

2 Kings 10:10

Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”

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.

Esther 9:5

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

Esther 9:6

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

Esther 9:7

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Esther 9:8

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

Esther 9:9

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.

Esther 9:10

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Hosea 9:13

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

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!’

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.