After a few brief words of reproach, Bildad begins a detailed description of the fate awaiting the wicked (cf. 15:20-35). He uses six different terms from hunting slang, whose meanings are not entirely clear. The references to the destroyed tent (14b-15) or dying without offspring (16-19) likely reflect Job’s afflictions mentioned earlier in the chapter. Back then, without any hope of life after death, the only legacy one could hope for was their name and the memory their descendants preserved. Without that, it was as if the person had never existed. No worse fate could be imagined (18f).