John Trapp on Job 27:14

Verſe 14 If his children [illegible: 1 word] he multiplyed it is for the ſword] As were Ahabs ſeventy ſons for inſtance, 2 King 10.1. whom he had begotten after that God had threatned to root out his poſterity. He therefore as it were to croſs the Almighty, gives himſelf ſo much the more [illegible: 1 word] to the work of Generation: but this was (Ephraim like) to bring fouth [illegible: 1 span] Hoſ 9.13. See the like of A[illegible: 1 letter]atia[illegible: 1 letter] and his forty brethren, ſlain at the ſhearing houſe in the ſame Chapter.

And his off[illegible: 1 letter]ſpring] Heb. His iſſ[illegible: 2 letters]s, or egreſſions, his ſ[illegible: 2 letters]ts or branches, his pledges, ſo Merc[illegible: 2 letters] [illegible: 2 letters]death it.

Shall not be ſatisfied with bread] i e. Shall be pined and a fa[illegible: 1 letter]iſhed, which their wicked Parents, by heaping and hearding, ſought to prevent, but it could not be, And this ſhall be a more cruel kinde of death than the former,Tacit. Lam. 4.9. Druſus the ſon of Tibe[illegible: 2 letters]us N[illegible: 1 letter]r[illegible: 1 letter] was put to this death: ſo was our Richard the ſecond at Pomfret Caſtle, Sanders that Traytour in Ireland [illegible: 1 word] and many others.