19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. …
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! …
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. …
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 ): Terro…
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