Job 18:19

19 He will not have any children or descendants among his people or any survivor where he used to live.

Job 18:19 Meaning and Commentary

Job 18:19

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. Bildad respects no doubt the present case of Job, who had lost all his children; but he was mistaken if he thought he should die so, for he had after this as many children as he had before:

nor any remaining in his dwellings;
being all dead, or fled from them, through the terror, desolation, and destruction in them. Aben Ezra and Bar Tzemach interpret them places in which he was a sojourner or stranger; and Mr. Broughton, nor remnant in his pilgrimage.

Job 18:19 In-Context

17 All memory about him will vanish from the earth, and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.
18 He will be driven from the light into the dark and chased out of the world.
19 He will not have any children or descendants among his people or any survivor where he used to live.
20 People in the west are shocked by what happens to him. People in the east are seized with horror.
21 This is what happens to the homes of wicked people and to those who do not know God."
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