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14 If he has many children,
    their destiny is to die by the sword,
    and his descendants won’t have enough food.
15 Those who do survive him disease will bury,
    and his widow won’t even weep.

16 “Though he hoards silver[a] like dust,
    and stores away garments like clay,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:16 Or money

14 However many his children,(A) their fate is the sword;(B)
    his offspring will never have enough to eat.(C)
15 The plague will bury those who survive him,
    and their widows will not weep for them.(D)
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust(E)
    and clothes like piles of clay,(F)

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