Job 27:13-14

27:13 This is the portion of the wicked man

allotted by God, ¹ 

the inheritance that evildoers receive

from the Almighty.

27:14 If his children increase – it is for the sword! ² 

His offspring never have enough to eat. ³ 

[27:13]  ¹ tn The expression “allotted by God” interprets the simple prepositional phrase in the text: “with/from God.”

[27:14]  ² tn R. Gordis (Job, 294) identifies this as a breviloquence. Compare Ps 92:8 where the last two words also constitute the apodosis.

[27:14]  ³ tn Heb “will not be satisfied with bread/food.”