Ezequiel 14:16

16 y estos tres varones estuvieren en medio de ella, vivo yo, dijo el Señor DIOS, ni a sus hijos ni a sus hijas librarán; ellos solos serán libres, y la tierra será asolada

Ezequiel 14:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 14:16

[Though] these three men [were] in it
Above named, Noah, Daniel, and Job; as they were not, two of them not being in the land of the living, and the other in Babylon; but if all three had been in a land so threatened, and used all the interest they had with God, by fervent prayer and supplication, to have called in the wild beasts, and chained them up, and to preserve the people from being destroyed by them, it would have been all in vain; the Lord was determined upon the destruction of them, and by means of these, as one of his sore judgments: [as] I live, saith the Lord God;
or by my life; for it is an oath with which God swears by himself, who has life in himself, and is the author and giver of life to others, and can take it away when, and in what manner, he pleases; and this oath is used, to show the unalterableness of the judgment threatened, it being decreed and sworn to: God's word or decree, and his oath, are two immutable things, in which he cannot lie, and from which he never departs: they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters;
meaning not adult persons, but little ones, infant sons and daughters; such as had not been guilty of the actual sins and transgressions their parents were charged with; even these they should not deliver by their prayers and supplications from being destroyed by noisome beasts, God punishing the iniquities of the fathers upon the children; and much less should they deliver those that were adult, and had committed the same idolatries and other sins their parents had; no, not even their own sons and daughters; for no exception is made but of themselves, as follows: they only shall be delivered:
as Noah with his family was in the ark, when amidst wild beasts; and Daniel in the lions den; and Job, with whom the beasts of the field were at peace, ( Job 5:23 ) ; but the land shall be desolate;
see ( Ezekiel 12:20 ) .

Ezequiel 14:16 In-Context

14 si estuvieren en medio de ella estos tres varones, Noé, Daniel, y Job, ellos por su justicia librarán su vida, dijo el Señor DIOS

15 Y si hiciere pasar mala bestia por la tierra, y la asolare, y fuere desolada que no haya quien pase a causa de la bestia

16 y estos tres varones estuvieren en medio de ella, vivo yo, dijo el Señor DIOS, ni a sus hijos ni a sus hijas librarán; ellos solos serán libres, y la tierra será asolada

17 O si yo trajere espada sobre la tierra, y dijere: Espada, pasa por la tierra; e hiciere talar de ella hombres y bestias

18 y estos tres varones estuvieren en medio de ella, vivo yo, dijo el Señor DIOS, no librarán a sus hijos ni a sus hijas; ellos solos serán libres