Job 18:17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.

English Standard Version
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

New American Standard Bible
"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name anywhere.

International Standard Version
No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor.

American Standard Version
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Darby Bible Translation
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.

Young's Literal Translation
His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.

Cross References

Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Psalm 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalm 109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Nahum 1:14
And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

18:11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from him. How happy are the saints, and how indebted to the lord Jesus, by whom death is so far done away and changed, that this king of terrors is become a friend and a servant! See the wicked man's family sunk and cut off. His children shall perish, either with him or after him. Those who consult the true honour of their family, and its welfare, will be afraid of withering all by sin. The judgments of God follow the wicked man after death in this world, as a proof of the misery his soul is in after death, and as an earnest of that everlasting shame and contempt to which he shall rise in the great day. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot, Pr 10:7. It would be well if this report of wicked men would cause any to flee from the wrath to come, from which their power, policy, and riches cannot deliver them. But Jesus ever liveth to deliver all who trust in him. Bear up then, suffering believers. Ye shall for a little time have sorrow, but your Beloved, your Saviour, will see you again; your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh away.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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].