The Meaning of Job 18:19 Explained

Job 18:19

KJV: He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

YLT: He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

Darby: He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

ASV: He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Discover Job 18:19

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 18:19?

MEANING: What does Job 18:19 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 18:19 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 18:19?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He shall neither have son  nor nephew  among his people,  nor any remaining  in his dwellings. 

What does Job 18:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 18:1-21 - "cast Into A Net"
Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep things that pass in a heart which is enduring sorrow are incomprehensible to shallow and narrow souls.
His description of the calamities which befall the wicked is terrible: their extinguished light, Job 18:5-6; their awful distress, Job 18:7-11; their destruction, Job 18:12-17; the horror with which men shall regard their fate, Job 18:18-21. All this was, of course, intended for Job. It was very severe. Even if the worst had been true, his extreme sufferings should have elicited more tenderness from his friends. Only the strong, wise hand of love can assuage the wounds that sin has made. We are indebted to Bildad for the phrase, king of terrors, as applied to death, Job 18:14. Apart from Christ, it is a significant and appropriate term. Sin has made his monarchy terrible. Yet even he has met his conqueror, John 11:25-26; Hebrews 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26.
The ancients had a deep presentiment of the punishments which must overtake sin. Probably we make too little of them. The note of fear has almost died out of modern preaching. In this there is a marked divergence from Baxter's Call to the Unconverted and from Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. But the doom of sin can only be terrible, especially for those to whom Calvary has pleaded in vain. A great atonement implies great sin, and this, a great penalty. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 18

1  Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5  The calamities of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 18:19 mean?

No son He has and no posterity among his people and [there is] none remaining in his dwellings
לֹ֘א נִ֤ין ל֣וֹ וְלֹא־ נֶ֣כֶד בְּעַמּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין שָׂ֝רִ֗יד בִּמְגוּרָֽיו

לֹ֘א  No 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
נִ֤ין  son 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: נִין  
Sense: offspring, posterity.
ל֣וֹ  He  has 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
וְלֹא־  and  no 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
נֶ֣כֶד  posterity 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: נֶכֶד  
Sense: progeny, posterity.
בְּעַמּ֑וֹ  among  his  people 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
וְאֵ֥ין  and  [there  is]  none 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: אַיִן 
Sense: nothing, not, nought n.
שָׂ֝רִ֗יד  remaining 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שָׂרִיד  
Sense: survivor, remnant, that which is left.
בִּמְגוּרָֽיו  in  his  dwellings 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: מָגֹור 
Sense: sojourning place, dwelling-place, sojourning.

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