Ayub 27:14

27:14 If his children increase – it is for the sword! ¹ 

His offspring never have enough to eat. ² 

Hosea 9:13

9:13 Just as lion cubs are born predators, ³ 

so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

[27:14]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “will not be satisfied with bread/food.”

[9:13]  ³ tc The MT is corrupt in 9:13. The BHS editors suggest emending the text to follow the LXX reading. See D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:250-51.