Berean Standard Bible
Job 18:15
15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
Job 18:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
- New International Version (NIV)Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
- English Standard Version (ESV)In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They dwell in his tent who are none of his; Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.
Context of Job 18:15
13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs. 14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling. 16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away. 17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
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תִּשְׁכּ֣וֹן בְּ֭אָהֳלוֹ מִבְּלִי ל֑וֹ יְזֹרֶ֖ה עַל־נָוֵ֣הוּ גָפְרִֽית׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 18:15
- Job 18:12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
- Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
- Job 20:18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
- Job 31:38if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
- Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
- Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Isaiah 34:9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Commentaries on Job 18:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15It shall dwell in his tabernacle - Desolation is here personified, and it is said that it shall be the inhabitant, its former owner being destroyed. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation, so that, like Sodom and Gomorrah, it may be an everlasting monument of the Divine displeasure. In the Persian poet Saady, we find a couplet which contains a similar sentiment: - Purdeh daree meekund dar keesri Keesar ankeboot Boomee Noobat meezund ber kumbed…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15It shall dwell in his tabernacle - It is uncertain what is to be understood as referred to here. Some suppose that the word to be understood is soul, and that the meaning is “his soul,” that is, he himself, “shall dwell in his tent.” Rosenmuller, Noyes, Wemyss, and others, suppose that the word is terror. “Terror (בלהה ballâhâh ) shall dwell in his tent,” the same word which is used in the plural in the previous verse. This is undoubtedly the correct…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15The image of burning sulfur reminds the reader of what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24). It suggests what will happen to all evil people (Psalm 11:6; Revelation 19:20; 21:8).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. It--"Terror" shall haunt, &c., and not as Umbreit, "another," which the last clause of the verse disproves. none of his--It is his no longer. brimstone--probably comparing the calamity of Job by the "fire of God" (Job 1:16) to the destruction of guilty Sodom by fire and brimstone (Ge 19:24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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