New Revised Standard Version
For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

Contemporary English Version
Because after they are dead, they won't care what happens to their children."

New American Bible
For what interest has he in his family after him, when the number of his months is finished?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

For what

Job 14:21 Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.

Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

Luke 16:27,28 And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, . . .

the number

Job 14:5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

Psalm 102:24 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.