He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I.
Commenting on Job 18:11-21
They that come after him shall be astonished at his day,.... At the day of his calamity and distress, ruin and destruction, see Psa 37:13; it would be extremely amazing to them how it should be, that a man who was in such flourishing and prosperous circumstances, should be brought at once, he and his family, into such extreme poverty, and into such a distressed...
nephew--(so Isa 14:22). But it is translated "grandson" (Gen 21:23); translate "kinsman."