Job 18:19
in Job 18He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
KJV
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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This verse in Job 18
Commentary
9 notes on this verseThere shall neither be seed of him, nor offspring in his people, nor any remnant in his parts. For it is written, that the Lord Jesus shall consume him, with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy him with the brightness of His coming.
This site's exposition
Fire resides in his tent
on Job 18:15-19
In "burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling" Bildad recalls the judgment on Sodom. With "he has no name in the land" the ruin passes beyond death into the loss of all memory of him. Then "He has no offspring or posterity among his people" erases his whole line.
This site's exposition
He has no offspring or posterity among his people
Henry hears Bildad pointing at Job's dead children. Barnes agrees that the loss of offspring and posterity was aimed at Job himself. Henry adds that a man may die with no survivor among his people and still know God.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
But since parents also live in their children he rejects this saying, "His seed will not exist," because his sons will be dead, "nor offspring in his people," since neither grandsons nor great-grandsons will remain, nor even his relatives, and so he then says, "nor …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people,.... Neither son, nor son's son, or grandson; so the Targum, Jarchi, and Bar Tzemach; that is, he shall be childless, and have no heirs, successors, or survivors, to inherit his estate, bear and perpetuate his name among the people of his country, city, or neighbourhood.
Sin entails a curse upon posterity, and the iniquity of the fathers is often visited upon the children. Herein, also, it is probable that Bildad reflects upon the death of Job's children and servants, as a further proof of his being a wicked man; whereas all that are written childless are not thereby written graceless; there is a name better than that of sons and daughters.
In this he seems, all along, to have an eye to Job's complaints of the miserable condition he was in, that he was in the dark, bewildered, ensnared, terrified, and hastening out of the world. "This," says Bildad, "is the condition of a wicked man; and therefore thou art one." Second Address of Eliphaz.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
He 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.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
He 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.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹ֘א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| נִ֤ין | nin | posterity | H5209 → | |
| ל֣וֹ | lo | [belongs] to him | ||
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| נֶ֣כֶד | nekhed | progeny | H5220 → | |
| בְּעַמּ֑וֹ | beamo | [is] among people his | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| וְאֵ֥ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| שָׂ֝רִ֗יד | sarid | [is] a survivor | H8300 → | 28 times |
| בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃ | bimgurav | in sojourning-places his | H4033 → |
לֹ֘אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
נִ֤יןposterity
ninH5209 →
ל֣וֹ[belongs] to him
lo
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
נֶ֣כֶדprogeny
nekhedH5220 →
בְּעַמּ֑וֹ[is] among people his
beamoH5971 →1873 times
וְאֵ֥יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
שָׂ֝רִ֗יד[is] a survivor
saridH8300 →28 times
בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃in sojourning-places his
bimguravH4033 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by…
- Psalms 94:20
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
- Matthew 1:11–16
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 10:21
For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
- 1 Chronicles 3:16–17
The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
- Jeremiah 36:30
Through
Job 1:19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 4:11–12
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow…
- Luke 13:1–5
At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- 1 Kings 20:30
The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
- Jeremiah 4:11–12
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.