God’s Word Translation
Job 18:19
19He will not have any children or descendants among his people or any survivor where he used to live.
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
17All memory about him will vanish from the earth, and his reputation will not be known on the street corner. 18He will be driven from the light into the dark and chased out of the world. He will not have any children or descendants among his people or any survivor where he used to live. 20People in the west are shocked by what happens to him. People in the east are seized with horror. 21This is what happens to the homes of wicked people and to those who do not know God.”
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לֹ֘א נִ֤ין ל֣וֹ וְלֹא־נֶ֣כֶד בְּעַמּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין שָׂ֝רִ֗יד בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 18:19
- Job 1:19when suddenly a great storm swept across the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It fell on the young people, and they died. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”
- Job 8:4If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness.
- Job 42:13He also had seven sons and three daughters.
- Psalms 109:13Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation.
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter their sons because of their ancestors’ guilt. They won’t be able to rise, possess the earth, and rebuild cities all over it.
- Jeremiah 22:30This is what the Lord says: Write this about Jehoiakin: He will be childless. He won’t prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed him as king. They won’t sit on David’s throne and rule Judah again.
- Job 20:26Total darkness waits in hiding for his treasure. A fire that no one fans will burn him. Whatever is left in his tent will be devoured.
- Isaiah 5:8How horrible it will be for you who acquire house after house and buy field after field until there’s nothing left and you have to live by yourself in 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
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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
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