19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
19 He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
19 And they leave empty-handed - not one single child - nothing to show for their life on this earth.
19 He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
4 His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
4 Their children out in the cold, abused and exploited, with no one to stick up for them.
4 His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
4 Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
(Read Job 5:1-5)
Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term, "saints," holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all ages to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slain in the covenant of their reconciliation. Eliphaz doubts not that the sin of sinners directly tends to their ruin. They kill themselves by some lust or other; therefore, no doubt, Job has done some foolish thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was no evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair and severe.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 18:19
Commentary on Job 18:11-21
(Read Job 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, Proverbs 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.