Job 18:17
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The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
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In this chapter Bildad makes a second assault upon Job. In his first discourse (ch. 8) he had given him encouragement to hope that all should yet be well with him. But here there is not a word of that; he has grown more peevish, and is so far from being convinced by Job's reasonings that he is but more exasperated. I. He sharply reproves Job as haughty and passionate, and obstinate in his opinion (Job 18:1-4). II. He enlarges upon the doctrine he had before maintained, concerning the miser of wicked people and the ruin that attends them (v. 5-21). In this he seems, all along, to have an eye to Job's complaints of the miserable condition he was in, that he was in the dark, bewildered, ensnared, terrified, and hastening out of the world. "This," says Bildad, "is the condition of a wicked man; and therefore thou art one."
Open source ↗18:17 Being forgotten by those who come later is a familiar curse against the wicked (see 18:19; Pss 34:16; 109:13; Prov 10:7).
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But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”