Job 18:19

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked · Job 18:1–21
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Translations

Modern
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Traditional
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Literal
No offspring is unto him, and no successor among his people, and no survivor in his dwellings.
Latin
Non erit semen ejus, neque progenies in populo suo, nec ullæ reliquiæ in regionibus ejus.

Original

Hebrew
English
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Notes

This 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).

Events

Glossary

Bildad Book of Job

Topics

Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Wicked (People): Punishment of Wicked (People): Temporal Punishment of