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Job 36:14

"They die in youth, And their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Hypocrisy;   Sodomites;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   God;   Hearing;   Heart;   Hypocrisy;   Poverty;   Uncleanness;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Life, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Harlot;   Phoenice;   Sodomites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Death;   Male;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They die in their youth;their life ends among male cult prostitutes.
Hebrew Names Version
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
King James Version
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
English Standard Version
They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
New Century Version
They die while they are still young, and their lives end in disgrace.
New English Translation
They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.
New American Standard Bible
"They die in youth, And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes.
World English Bible
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Their soule dyeth in youth, and their life among the whoremongers.
Legacy Standard Bible
They die in youth,And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes.
Berean Standard Bible
They die in their youth, among the male cult prostitutes.
Contemporary English Version
So they die young in shameful disgrace.
Complete Jewish Bible
Their soul perishes in their youth, and their life becomes depraved.
Darby Translation
Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Easy-to-Read Version
They will die while they are still young, like the male prostitutes.
George Lamsa Translation
They shall die in youth, and their life is snatched by famine.
Good News Translation
They die while they are still young, worn out by a life of disgrace.
Lexham English Bible
They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male shrine prostitutes.
Literal Translation
Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus their soule perisheth in foolishnesse, and their lyfe wt ye condened.
American Standard Version
They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.
Bible in Basic English
They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their soul perisheth in youth, and their life as that of the depraved.
King James Version (1611)
They die in youth, and their life is among the vncleane.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus shal their soule perishe in foolishnes, and their lyfe among the fornicatours.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers of death.
English Revised Version
They die in youth, and their life perisheth among the unclean.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The soule of hem schal die in tempest; and the lijf of hem among `men of wymmens condiciouns.
Update Bible Version
They die in youth, And their life [perishes] among the homosexuals.
Webster's Bible Translation
They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.
New King James Version
They die in youth,And their life ends among the perverted persons. [fn]
New Living Translation
They die when they are young, after wasting their lives in immoral living.
New Life Bible
They die when they are young. And their life ends among those who sell the use of their bodies in the houses of the false gods.
New Revised Standard
They die in their youth, and their life ends in shame.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
Revised Standard Version
They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.
Young's Literal Translation
Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They die in youth, And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes.

Contextual Overview

5"Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone [nor regard any as trivial]; He is mighty in the strength and power of understanding. 6"He does not prolong the life of the wicked, But gives the afflicted their justice. 7"He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous [those in right standing with Him]; But with kings upon the throne He has seated them forever, and they are exalted. 8"And if they are bound in bonds [of adversity], And held by cords of affliction, 9Then He declares to them [the true character of] their deeds And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly [with presumption and notions of self-sufficiency]. 10"He opens their ears to instruction and discipline, And commands that they return from evil. 11"If they hear and serve Him, They will end their days in prosperity And their years in pleasantness and joy. 12"But if they do not hear and obey, they will die by the sword [of God's destructive judgments] And they will die [in ignorance] without [true] knowledge. 13"But the godless in heart store up anger [at the divine discipline]; They do not cry [to Him] for help when He binds them [with cords of affliction]. 14"They die in youth, And their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They die: Heb. Their soul dieth, Job 15:32, Job 21:23-25, Job 22:16, Genesis 38:7-10, Leviticus 10:1, Leviticus 10:2, Psalms 55:23

unclean: or, sodomites, Genesis 19:5, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Deuteronomy 23:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:5 - but divideth Leviticus 13:44 - utterly unclean Leviticus 14:41 - into an unclean place

Cross-References

Genesis 36:2
Esau took his [three] wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon the Hivite,
Genesis 36:5
and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau born to him in Canaan.
Genesis 36:18
These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs born of Oholibamah, daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
1 Chronicles 1:35
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They die in youth,.... They, or "their soul" u; which, though that dies not, being immaterial and immortal; yet being the principal part of man, is put for the whole person, and which being taken away, the body dies. All men must die, but all do not die at an age; there is a common term of human life, Psalms 90:10; some few exceed it, multitudes arrive not to it; such who die before it may be said to die in youth; it seems to signify premature and untimely death: the word signifies an "excussion", or violent shaking out; and the Vulgate Latin version is, "in a tempest"; in a tempest of divine wrath, and in a storm in their consciences, Job 27:20. Jarchi interprets it by suffocation or strangling;

and their life [is] among the unclean: all men are by nature unclean, and all that is in them; some are more notoriously and openly so than others, who give themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness; such as whoremongers and fornicators, of whom Mr. Broughton understands those unclean persons; or Sodomites, of whom the word is sometimes used, Deuteronomy 23:17. And this may be understood either of the present life of hypocrites before they die; who are unclean persons themselves, whatever show of purity they make, and love to live and converse, at least privately, if not openly, with unclean persons, and die while they live with such and in their sins: or of their life after death; for wicked men live after death; their souls live in hell, and their bodies at the resurrection will be raised to life, and be reunited to their souls, and both together will live in endless punishment; and the life of hypocrites will be among such; as is a man in life, so he is at and after death; if filthy, filthy still; and such will have no admittance into the heavenly state, and with such impure ones, hypocrites will live for ever, Revelation 21:8.

u נפשם "anima eorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They die in youth - Margin, “Their soul dieth.” The word “soul” or “life” in the Hebrew is used to denote oneself. The meaning is, that they would soon be cut down, and share the lot of the openly wicked. If they amended their lives they might be spared, and continue to live in prosperity and honor; if they did not, whether openly wicked or hypocrites. they would be early cut off.

And their life is amnong the unclean - Margin, “Sodomites.” The idea is, that they would be treated in the same way as the most abandoned and vile of the race. No special favor would be shown to them because they were “professors” of religion, nor would this fact be a shield against the treatment which they deserved. They could not be classed with the righteous, and must, therefore, share the fate of the most worth mss and wicked of the race. The word rendered “unclean” (קדשׁים qâdêsh) is from קדשׁ qâdash, “to be pure or holy”; and in the Hiphil to regard as holy, to consecrate, or devote to the service of God, as e. g. a priest; Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:1. Then it means to consecrate or devote to “any” service or purpose, as to an idol god. Hence, it means one consecrated or devoted to the service of Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians or Venus, and as this worship was corrupt and licentious, the word means one who is licentious or corrupt compare Deuteronomy 23:18; 1 Kings 14:24; Genesis 38:21-22. Here it means the licentious, the corrupt, the abandoned; and the idea is, that if hypocrites did not repent under the inflictions of divine judgment, they would be dealt with in the same way as the most abandoned and vile. On the evidence that licentiousness constituted a part of the ancient worship of idols, see Spencer “de Legg. ritual Hebraedor.” Lib. ii. cap. iii. pp. 613, 614, Ed. 1732. Jerome renders this, “intereffoeminatos.” The Septuagint strangely enough has: “Let their life be wounded by angels.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 36:14. They die in youth — Exactly what the psalmist says, "Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days," Psalms 55:23. Literally, the words of Elihu are, "They shall die in the youth of their soul."

Their life is among the unclean. — בקדשים bakedeshim, among the whores, harlots, prostitutes, and sodomites. In this sense the word is used, though it also signifies consecrated persons; but we know that in idolatry characters of this kind were consecrated to Baal and Ashtaroth, Venus, Priapus, &c. Mr. Good translates the rabble. The Septuagint: Their life shalt be wounded by the angels.


 
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