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New King James Version

Job 18:17

The memory of him perishes from the earth,And he has no name among the renowned. [fn]

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Memory-Oblivion;   Oblivion;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Perishing;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All memory of him perishes from the earth;he has no name anywhere.
Hebrew Names Version
His memory shall perish from the eretz. He shall have no name in the street.
King James Version
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
English Standard Version
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
New Century Version
People on earth will not remember them; their names will be forgotten in the land.
New English Translation
His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
Amplified Bible
"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name on the street.
New American Standard Bible
"The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.
World English Bible
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
Legacy Standard Bible
Memory of him perishes from the earth,And he has no name abroad.
Berean Standard Bible
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Contemporary English Version
They are gone and forgotten,
Complete Jewish Bible
Memory of him will fade from the land, while abroad his name will be unknown.
Darby Translation
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
Easy-to-Read Version
People on earth will not remember them. Their names will be forgotten.
George Lamsa Translation
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name upon it.
Good News Translation
Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.
Lexham English Bible
His remembrance perishes from the earth, and there is not a name for him on the street.
Literal Translation
His memory perishes from the earth, and there is no name to him on the face of the street.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes:
American Standard Version
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
Bible in Basic English
His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.
King James Version (1611)
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and hee shall haue no name in the streete.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
English Revised Version
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His mynde perische fro the erthe; and his name be not maad solempne in stretis.
Update Bible Version
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
Webster's Bible Translation
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
New Living Translation
All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.
New Life Bible
No one on earth will remember him. His name will not be known in the land.
New Revised Standard
Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.
Revised Standard Version
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
Young's Literal Translation
His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.

Contextual Overview

11 Terrors frighten him on every side, And drive him to his feet. 12 His strength is starved, And destruction is ready at his side. 13 It devours patches of his skin; The firstborn of death devours his limbs. 14 He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors. 15 They dwell in his tent who are none of his; Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling. 16 His roots are dried out below, And his branch withers above. 17 The memory of him perishes from the earth,And he has no name among the renowned. [fn] 18 He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19 He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 Those in the west are astonished at his day, As those in the east are frightened.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 13:12, Psalms 34:16, Psalms 83:4, Psalms 109:13, Proverbs 2:22, Proverbs 10:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:14 - the remembrance 2 Samuel 18:18 - I have no son Job 4:20 - without Job 15:32 - and his branch Job 24:20 - wickedness Psalms 41:5 - his name Psalms 109:15 - cut off Mark 11:20 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.
2 Kings 4:27
Now when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone; for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me."
2 Chronicles 20:7
Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
Psalms 25:14
The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant.
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Genesis 15:6">[fn] And he was called the friend of God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His remembrance shall perish from the earth,.... Not only are the wicked forgotten of God in heaven, and are as the slain he remembers no more, unless it be to pour out his wrath upon them, and punish them for their sins, for which great Babylon will come up in remembrance before him; but of men on earth, and in the very places where they were born, and lived all their days, Ecclesiastes 8:10; yea, those places, houses and palaces, towns and cities, which they have built to perpetuate their memory among men, perish and come to nought, and their memorial with them, Psalms 9:5;

and he shall have no name in the street; much less in the house of God, still less in heaven, in the Lamb's book of life; so far from it, that he shall have none on earth, no good name among men; if ever his name is mentioned after his death, it is with some brand of infamy upon him; he is not spoken of in public, in a court of judicature, nor in any place of commerce and trade, nor in any concourse of people, or public assembly of any note, especially with any credit or commendation; such is the difference between a good man and a wicked man, see Proverbs 11:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His remembrance shall perish - His name - all recollection of him. Calamity shall follow him even after death; and that which every man desires, and every good man has, and honored name when he is dead, will be denied him. Men will hasten to forget him as fast as possible; compare Proverbs 10:7, “The name of the wicked shall rot.”

No name in the street - Men when they meet together in highways and places of concourse - when traveler meets traveler, and caravan caravan, shall not pause to speak of him and of the loss which society has substained by his death. It is one of the rewards of virtue that the good will speak of the upright man when he is dead; that they will pause in their journey, or in their business, to converse about him; and that the poor and the needy will dwell with affectionate interest upon their loss. “This” blessing, Bildad says, will be denied the wicked man. The world will not feel that they have any loss to deplore when he is dead. No great plan of benvolence has been arrested by his removal. The poor and the needy fare as well as they did before. The widow and the fatherless make no grateful remembrance of his name, and the world hastens to forget him as soon as possible. There is no man, except one who is lost to all virtue, who does not desire to be remembered when he is dead - by his children, his neighbors, his friends, and by the stranger who may read the record on the stone that marks his grave. Where this desire is “wholly” extinguished, man has reached the lowest possible point of degradation, and the last hold on him in favor of virtue has expired.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 18:17. His remembrance shall perish — He shall have none to survive him, to continue his name among men.

No name in the street. — He shall never be a man of reputation; after his demise, none shall talk of his fame.


 
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