Job 18:19
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19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.(A)
Jeremiah 22:30
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30 Thus says the Lord:
Record this man as childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
for none of his offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.(A)
Isaiah 14:21-22
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21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
because of the guilt of their father.[a]
Let them never rise to possess the earth
or cover the face of the world with cities.(A)
22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.(B)
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- 14.21 Syr Compare Gk: Heb fathers
Isaiah 5:8-9
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Social Injustice Denounced
8 Woe to those who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is room for no one,
and you are left to live alone
in the midst of the land!(A)
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.(B)
Psalm 109:13
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13 May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(A)
Job 42:13-16
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13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.(A) 14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.(B)
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Job 27:14-15
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14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and their offspring have not enough to eat.(A)
15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
and their widows make no lamentation.(B)
Job 20:26-28
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26 Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;
a fire fanned by no one will devour them;
what is left in their tent will be consumed.(A)
27 The heavens will reveal their iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against them.(B)
28 The possessions of their house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God’s[a] wrath.(C)
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- 20.28 Heb his
Job 8:4
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4 If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.(A)
Job 1:19
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19 and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you.”(A)
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