Job 18:19

19 They have no children or descendants among their people, and no one will be left alive where they once lived.

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 People on earth will not remember them; their names will be forgotten in the land.
18 They will be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.
19 They have no children or descendants among their people, and no one will be left alive where they once lived.
20 People of the west will be shocked at what has happened to them, and people of the east will be very frightened.
21 Surely this is what will happen to the wicked; such is the place of one who does not know God."
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