Job 18:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:16 : 16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.
  • Prov 2:22 : 22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

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    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

    19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

    20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

  • Job 18:14-16
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    14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

    15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Job 24:20
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    20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Job 7:10
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    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

    8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

    9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

  • Ps 109:13
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    13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Job 27:15
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    15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Isa 14:19-20
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    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

    20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • Job 15:32
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    32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

  • Job 21:32
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    32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Job 14:2
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    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

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    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

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    18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

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    36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

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    7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

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    15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

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    27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

    28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

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    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

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    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

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    11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

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    21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

  • Ps 103:16
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    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

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    10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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    10 For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

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    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

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    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

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    21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

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    5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

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    15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.