Job 18:17
Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
In Context
16Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
18He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
Cross References
Psalms 9:6You have rebuked the Gentiles, and the impious one has perished. You have deleted their name in eternity and for all generations.
Psalms 41:5These things I have remembered; and my soul within me, I have poured out. For I will cross into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, all the way to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and confession, the sound of feasting.
Proverbs 10:7The remembrance of the just is with praises. And the name of the impious shall decay.
Isaiah 26:14Let not the dead live; let not the giants rise up again. For this reason, you have visited and destroyed them, and you have perished all remembrance of them.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:12-21
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up… Read the whole commentary →