“His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 14 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.