He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Job 18:19 falls within Bildad's speech in the debate between Job and his three friends concerning Job's afflictions. That speech is one of the declamations of Job's misguided friends found in Job 4, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18, 20, 22, and 25. In it Bildad predicts the fate of the wicked as part of their final doom, that he will have no son, nephew, or descendant among his people and no survivor remaining in his dwellings or household.
The friends often stated truths about evil's eventual punishment but wrongly applied them to Job's suffering. Affliction does not prove that a person is under God's displeasure.
Those men did not speak the truth about God or about Job, so their statements are not correct and reliable in themselves, and to take them as correct is not rightly dividing the Word. Their words were put on record by inspiration, but like Satan's lie in Eden they are not verity and truth when they contradict the teachings of the Scriptures. Even good things they said must be compared with other inspired declarations given through God's servants to see if they are sustained.
Job 18:19 falls within Bildad's speech in the debate between Job and his three friends concerning Job's afflictions. That speech is one of the declamations of Job's misguided friends found in Job 4, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18, 20, 22, and 25. In it Bildad predicts the fate of the wicked as part of their final doom, that he will have no son, nephew, or descendant among his people and no survivor remaining in his dwellings or household.
The friends often stated truths about evil's eventual punishment but wrongly applied them to Job's suffering. Affliction does not prove that a person is under God's displeasure.
Those men did not speak the truth about God or about Job, so their statements are not correct and reliable in themselves, and to take them as correct is not rightly dividing the Word. Their words were put on record by inspiration, but like Satan's lie in Eden they are not verity and truth when they contradict the teachings of the Scriptures. Even good things they said must be compared with other inspired declarations given through God's servants to see if they are sustained.