“His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.”
"His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street." The final punishment: the wicked person is forgotten. His memory dies, his name disappears. The verse suggests that oblivion awaits the wicked—not merely death but erasure. He will be as if he never existed.
Church Fathers on Job 18:17
Let his remembrance perish from the earth, and let not his name be repeated in the streets. It is deserving of our notice, that Bildad the Shuhite so expresses himself of each one of the wicked, that his words are secretly directed against the head of all the wicked; for the head of the wicked is the devil. And he in his own person having in the last times entered into that vessel of perdition, shall be called ‘Antichrist,’ who will endeavour to spread his name far and wide,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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