New King James Version
Job 18:19
19He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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 Living Translation (NLT)They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
Context of Job 18:19
17The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned. 18He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20Those in the west are astonished at his day, As those in the east are frightened. 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God.”
Read all of Job 18Job 18:19 word by word
לֹ֘א נִ֤ין ל֣וֹ וְלֹא־נֶ֣כֶד בְּעַמּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין שָׂ֝רִ֗יד בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 18:19
- Job 1:19and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 8:4If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.
- Job 42:13He also had seven sons and three daughters.
- Psalms 109:13Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities.”
- Jeremiah 22:30Thus says the Lord: ‘Write this man down as childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days; For none of his descendants shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”
- Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. An unfanned fire will consume him; It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.
- Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell 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
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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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