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OET (OET-LV) If they_will_increase children_his for [the]_sword and_offspring_his not they_will_be_satisfied bread.
OET (OET-RV) If they have many children, they’ll die in battle,
⇔ ≈and their offspring won’t have enough food to eat.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב
if many children,his for sword
Job is using the term sword by association to mean death, since in this culture people killed others with swords. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Even if a wicked person has many children, they will all die”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
לָֽחֶם
bread
Job is using one kind of food, bread, to mean food in general. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “food”
27:9-23 Some interpreters see a new speech here and ascribe it to Zophar because otherwise Zophar has no speech in this cycle.
OET (OET-LV) If they_will_increase children_his for [the]_sword and_offspring_his not they_will_be_satisfied bread.
OET (OET-RV) If they have many children, they’ll die in battle,
⇔ ≈and their offspring won’t have enough food to eat.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.