Job 27:14

“If his children be multiplied, etc.] As it is possible they may; this is one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that proud oppressor, left ten sons behind him, and wicked Ahab had seventy, (<170912>Esther 9:12 <121001>2 Kings 10:1): [it is] for the sword; for them that kill with the sword, as the Targum; to be killed with it, as in the two instances above; Haman’s ten sons were slain by the sword of the Jews, (<170913>Esther 9:13,14), and Ahab’s seventy sons by the sword of Jehu, or those he ordered to slay them, (<121007>2 Kings 10:7). The children of such wicked persons are oftentimes put to death, either by the sword of the enemy, fall in battle in an hostile way,…”

“His family only increases to perish by sword or famine (Jer 18:21; Job 5:20, the converse).”

“If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword - That is, they shall be slain in war. The first calamities which it is here said would come upon a man, relate to his family Job 27:14-18; the next are those that would come upon himself, Job 27:19-23. All the sentiments here expressed are found in the various speeches of the friends of Job, and, according to the interpretation suggested above, this is designed to represent their sentiments. They maintained that if a wicked man was blessed with a numerous family, and seemed to be prosperous, it was only that the punishment might come the more heavily upon him, for that they certainly would be cut off; see Job 18:19-20; Job 20:10. And his…”

“children: Job 21:11, Job 21:12; Deu 28:32, Deu 28:41; Kg2 9:7, Kg2 9:8, Kg2 10:6-10; Est 5:11, Est 9:5-10; Psa 109:13; Hos 9:13, Hos 9:14; Luk 23:29 his offspring: Sa1 2:5 Job 27:15”