What Does Job 27:15 Mean in the King James?

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Job 27:15 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The verse makes survival itself precarious: even those who remain are buried in death, while the widows do not weep.

THE MEANING

Here, death reaches beyond the man to those who remain: they too are buried in death, while his widows do not weep. Their silence is part of the desolation; the verse offers no reason for it or comfort around it.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a man’s death leaves his household intact and its grief safely expressed.

THE ROOT

שְׂרִידָיו

śərîdāw

GROWS FROM

שרד

To escape or survive.

English “remain” can sound like simple leftover; the Hebrew noun names survivors or a remnant. The verse then turns survival into no refuge: those who have outlasted the first death are swallowed by death too.

ALSO GROWS

śārad: To survive or escape.

שָׂרַד

The verb behind the survivor noun makes these the ones who have escaped or outlasted the first death.

śārîd: A survivor or remnant.

שָׂרִיד

This noun names someone left alive after devastation, sharpening the shock that even the surviving remnant is buried in death.

יִקָּבְרוּ

yiqqāverû

GROWS FROM

קבר

To bury or inter.

“buried” in this verse is yiqqāverû. The burial verb belongs to the same root as the word for a grave and the noun for burial. Joined to “in death,” it makes death the domain that receives the survivors, not merely the event before a funeral.

ALSO GROWS

qeber: A grave.

קֶבֶר

The noun makes the root’s image of burial concrete: a place that receives the dead.

qevurah: Burial.

קְבוּרָה

This branch names the act or state of burial and echoes the verse’s stark fate for the survivors.

מָוֶת

māvet

GROWS FROM

מות

To die; death.

The noun for death grows from the verb “to die,” holding the act and its outcome in one root. Here the survivors are not merely left bereaved: death gathers them too.

ALSO GROWS

mût: To die.

מוּת

The verb names the action that overtakes those who remain.

mēt: Dead; a dead person.

מֵת

This form names the state or person produced by dying, completing the root’s movement from act to outcome.

THE PATTERN

Death’s violence reaches a household through the lives it takes and the grief it leaves audible or absent.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Psalm 78:64 · KJVThe deaths extend into the household, and the widows’ lack of lament echoes Job’s stark silence.

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Matthew 2:18 · KJVThe verse gives voice to the grief that Job’s line leaves unvoiced, showing another face of a household struck by death.

THE THREAD

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Psalm 78:64 · KJV

Job pairs death with widows who do not weep; Psalm 78:64 repeats that shape after priests fall by the sword. The parallel makes the absence of lament part of the devastation itself.

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