Job 18:19

19. Son nor nephew Literally, sprig nor sprout. Tyndale’s rendering is admirable “He shall nether have chyldren nor kynsfolcks amonge hys people; noo, nor eny posterite in hys countrey” ( places of sojourn). The original word for dwellings, according to Schultens, signified a refuge for strangers. The great men among the Arabs prided themselves upon the numbers of those who fled to them for protection. To such Schultens thinks Bildad may refer when he says, there shall be “no survivor in his dwellings.” Under the earlier economies the doctrine of the immortality of the soul being more or less obscured, the natural desire for an after life developed into a vehement passion for an immortal line of posterity. This intensified the calamity threatened by Bildad the wholesale destruction of the progeny of the wicked. Job is goaded to bitter thoughts over his own bereavement.