Job 18:19

Job 18:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
• New International Version (NIV)He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
• English Standard Version (ESV)He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Context of Job 18:19

17Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name on the street. 18He is driven and propelled from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world. He has no offspring or prosperity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned. 20Those in the west are astonished and appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror. 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked and the ungodly, And such is the place of him who does not know or recognize or honor God.”

Job 18:19 word by word

לֹ֘א נִ֤ין ל֣וֹ וְלֹא־נֶ֣כֶד בְּעַמּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין שָׂ֝רִ֗יד בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He shall neither have sonנִיןnîyn · offspringH5209
• nor nephewנֶ֫כֶדneked · progenyH5220
• among his peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• nor any remainingשָׂרִידώârîyd · survivorH8300
• in his dwellingsמָגוֹרmâgûr mâgûr · sojourningH4033

Cross-references for Job 18:19

• Job 1:19and suddenly, a great wind came from across the desert, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
• Job 8:4If your children have sinned against Him, Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them.
• Job 42:13He had seven sons and three daughters.
• Psalms 109:13Let his descendants be cut off, And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.
• Isaiah 14:21Prepare a slaughtering place for his sons Because of the wickedness [the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing] of their fathers. They must not rise and take possession of the earth, And fill the face of the world with cities.”
• Jeremiah 22:30Thus says the Lord, ‘Write this man [Coniah] down as childless, A man who will not prosper (succeed) in his lifetime; For not one of his descendants will succeed In sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.’ ”
• Job 20:26Complete darkness (misfortune) is held in reserve for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent.
• Isaiah 5:8Woe (judgment is coming) to those who join house to house and join field to field [to increase their holdings by depriving others], Until there is no more room [for others], So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

Commentaries on Job 18:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19He shall neither have son nor nephew - Coverdale, following the Vulgate, translates thus: He shal neither have children ner kynss folk among his people, no ner eny posterite in his countrie: yonge and olde shal be astonyshed at his death.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19He shall neither have son … - All his family shall be cut off. He shall have no one to perpetuate his name or remembrance. All this Job could not help applying to himself, as it was doubtless intended he should. The facts in his case were just such as were supposed in these proverbs about the wicked; and hence, his friends could not but conclude that he was a wicked man; and hence, his friends could not but conclude that he was a wicked man; and hence…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19This bad fortune (curse) of Job no longer having children and Bildad’s earlier cruel acts show that he believed Job's suffering was a fair punishment because he did wrong (see 18:16; Psalms 109:13; Isaiah 14:21–22; Job 8:4; 1:18–19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. nephew--(so Is 14:22). But it is translated "grandson" (Ge 21:23); translate "kinsman."Read the comment

Topics related to Job 18:19

• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Net
• Bildad

Commentaries on Job 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary