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Job 18:19 Explained in Context

Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.

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Verse 19. He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

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Role in This Section

Job 18:19 advances the thought unit with the words “He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.” Bildad states “He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings” as one poetic claim in Bildad Extends Ruin to Body, Home, Memory, and Children.

Read It With

  • Job 18:11–18:21

Read Job 18:19 with 18:11–18:21. Read alone, “He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Bildad describes terror, disease, uprooted dwelling, erased memory, no descendant, and public horror as the wicked person's place.

Why It Needs Context

Job 18:19 depends on 18:11–18:21; isolating “He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Bildad and “Bildad Extends Ruin to Body, Home, Memory, and Children.”

Read Job 18:11–21 together

Why these verses belong together: Job 18:11–18:21 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Bildad Extends Ruin to Body, Home, Memory, and Children.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.

Verse 11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Verse 12. His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Verse 13. It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Verse 14. His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Verse 15. It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Verse 16. His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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

Verse 18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Verse 19. He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Verse 20. They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Verse 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

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Read Job 18:11–18:21 — Bildad Extends Ruin to Body, Home, Memory, and Children
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Job 18:11–18:21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job

Open Scriptures

Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 18:11–18:21

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