Job Chapter 18 verse 17 Holy Bible
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
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His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
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His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - His remembrance shall perish from the earth (comp. Psalm 34:16; Psalm 109:13). This is always spoken of in Scripture as a great calamity, one of the greatest that can befall a man. It was felt as such, not only by the Jews, but by the Semitic people generally, whose earnest desire to perpetuate their memory is shown by the elaborate monuments and lengthy inscriptions which they set up in so many places. Arabian poetry, no less than Jewish, is penetrated by the idea. In one point of view it may seem a vulgar ambition; but, in another, it is a pathetic craving alter that continuance which the spirit of man naturally desires, but of which it has, apart from revelation, no assurance. And he shall have no name in the street; or, in the world without (comp. Job 5:10).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) His remembrance shall perish.--This is the doom which above all others is dreaded by the modern roamers of the desert. (Comp. also Jeremiah 35:19.)
