Job 18:19
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
In Context
18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
Cross References
Job 8:4When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job 42:13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
Isaiah 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
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 to rule again in Judah.”
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 →