17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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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 ): Terro…
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