Job 18:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Job 18:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Topics

Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. street--Men shall not speak of him in meeting in the highways; rather, “in the field” or “meadow”; the shepherds shall no more mention his name--a picture from nomadic life [Umbreit].