Job 18:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:16 : 16 But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
  • Prov 2:22 : 22 but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

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    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

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    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

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    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

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    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

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    13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

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