He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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Gill's Exposition
They that come after him shall be astonished at his day,.... At the day of his calamity and distress, ruin and destruction, see Psa 37:13; it would be extremely amazing to them how it should be, that…
Barnes' Notes
He shall neither have son ... - All his family shall be cut off. He shall have no one to perpetuate his name or remembrance. All this Job could not help applying to himself, as it was doubtless…
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable…
Cambridge Bible
son nor nephew i. e. son nor grandson. So the word nephew(Lat nepos, through Fr. neveu) means in the English of the time
O thou most auncient grandmother of all,
Why suffredst thou thy nephews dear…
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