Job 18:19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:11-21

Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I. See him disheartened and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God's wrath (Job 18:11, 12): Terror shall make him afraid on every side. The terrors of his own conscience shall haunt him, so that he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew - Coverdale, following the Vulgate, translates thus: He shal neither have children ner kynss folk among his people, no ner eny posterite in his countrie: yonge and olde shal be astonyshed at his death. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-22 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" ( Job 16:2 , Job 16:11 ; Job 17:10 ); and aims at nothing but venting his anger, and terrifying Job by a series of denunciations and threats. Job has become to him "the wicked man" (verses 5, 21), an embodiment of all that is evil, and one "that knoweth not God." No punishment is too severe for him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Bildad to Job: an Arabian orator's discourse. I. THE FAULTY INTRODUCTION . Bildad possessed at least three qualifications indispensable to successful speaking—fervid imagination, glowing eloquence, and vehement passion. He was characterized also by three fatal defects—want of calmness, or self-containment, want of prudence, and want of sympathetic tenderness. Being destitute of these, he blundered like an inexperienced amateur, starting out on his oration in a hurricane of passion and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Renewed rebukes and warnings. Bildad again replies, mentioning that the passionate outbreaks of Job are useless. He holds fast to his original principle, that, according to the Law of God, the hardened sinner will suddenly meet his doom. And some secret sin, he persists, must be the cause of the present suffering. I. INTRODUCTION : DENUNCIATION OF JOB AS A FOOLISH AND VIOLENT SPEAKER . (Verses 1-4.) He is one who "hunts after words." Let him be truly sensible and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-21

Bildad, from this point, turns wholly to denunciation. He strings together a long series of menaces—probably ancient saws, drawn from "the wisdom of the Beni Kedem" ( 1 Kings 4:30 ), and descriptive of the wretched fate of the wicked man, with whom he identifies Job. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:16-21

The curse upon the family of the wicked. The permanent continuance of the family was one of the most coveted blessings of Eastern nations. Very deeply was this embedded in the minds of the peoples. It was, therefore, a signal curse of God to cut off the remembrance of a family from the earth. With cruel error Bildad points to the cutting off of Job's family—at least, such is the presumption, otherwise his words are inappropriate here—and he seems to charge upon Job the sin of which the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people ; rather, nor grandson ; i.e. "his posterity shall be clean put out" ( Psalms 109:14 ). Nor any remaining in his dwellings ; rather, in the places where he sojourned (compare the Revised Version, which gives "in his sojournings"). It is implied that the wicked man shall be a vagabond, without a home, sojourning now here, now there, for a short time. Neither among his own people, nor in these places of his temporary abode, shall... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 18:19

He shall neither have son ... - All his family shall be cut off. He shall have no one to perpetuate his name or remembrance. All this Job could not help applying to himself, as it was doubtless intended he should. The facts in his case were just such as were supposed in these proverbs about the wicked; and hence, his friends could not but conclude that he was a wicked man; and hence, his friends could not but conclude that he was a wicked man; and hence, too, since these were undisputed maxims,... read more

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