“His survivors will be buried because of the plague, And their widows will not be able to weep.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
- KJV Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
- BSB His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
- NKJV Those who survive him shall be buried in death, And their widows shall not weep,
- NLT Those who survive will die of a plague, and not even their widows will mourn them.
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Quick answer
Those who survive the wicked man die by plague, unmourned by their widows. It matters because his line ends in death without lament.
Overview
Job states that whoever remains of the wicked man will be buried by death, likely by pestilence, and his widows will not weep for him. Even in death he is denied the honor of mourning. The desolate end of the godless underscores the emptiness of a life lived against God, in contrast to the blessed hope of those who die in the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 78:64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
- 1 Kgs 21:21–24Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
- 1 Kgs 16:3–4behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
- 1 Kgs 14:10–11therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.
- Jer 22:18Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
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