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Job 18:17-19
New English Translation
Job 18:17-19
New English Translation
17 His memory perishes from the earth,
he has no name in the land.[a]
18 He is driven[b] from light into darkness
and is banished from the world.
19 He has neither children nor descendants[c] among his people,
no survivor in those places he once stayed.[d]
Footnotes
- Job 18:17 tn Heb “outside.” Cf. ESV, “in the street,” referring to absence from his community’s memory.
- Job 18:18 tn The verbs in this verse are plural; without the expressed subject they should be taken in the passive sense.
- Job 18:19 tn The two words נִין (nin, “offspring”) and נֶכֶד (nekhed, “posterity”) are always together and form an alliteration. This is hard to capture in English, but some have tried: Moffatt had “son and scion,” and Tur-Sinai had “breed or brood.” But the words are best simply translated as “lineage and posterity” or as in the NIV “offspring or descendants.”
- Job 18:19 tn Heb “in his sojournings.” The verb גּוּר (gur) means “to reside; to sojourn” temporarily, without land rights. Even this word has been selected to stress the temporary nature of his stay on earth.
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