God’s Word Translation
Job 18:15
15Fire lives in his tent. Sulfur is scattered over his home.
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
13His skin is eaten away by disease. Death’s firstborn son eats away at the limbs of his body. 14He is dragged from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. Fire lives in his tent. Sulfur is scattered over his home. 16His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him. 17All memory about him will vanish from the earth, and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.
Read all of Job 18Job 18:15 word by word
תִּשְׁכּ֣וֹן בְּ֭אָהֳלוֹ מִבְּלִי ל֑וֹ יְזֹרֶ֖ה עַל־נָוֵ֣הוּ גָפְרִֽית׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 18:15
- Job 18:12Hunger undermines his strength. Disaster is waiting beside him.
- Zechariah 5:4I will send out a curse, declares the Lord of Armies, and it will enter the houses of thieves and the houses of those who take oaths in my name. It will stay in their houses and destroy the timber and stone.”
- Job 20:18He will give back what he earned without enjoying it. He will get no joy from the profits of his business
- Job 31:38“If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept….
- Jeremiah 22:13“How horrible it will be for the person who builds his house dishonestly and his upper rooms through injustice. He makes his neighbors work for nothing and doesn’t pay them for their work.
- Habakkuk 2:6Won’t all of them ridicule him, directing clever sayings and riddles at him, like: “ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?’
- Genesis 19:24Then the Lord made burning sulfur and fire rain out of heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Deuteronomy 29:23They will see all the soil poisoned with sulfur and salt. Nothing will be planted. Nothing will be growing. There will be no plants in sight. It will be as desolate as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, cities the Lord destroyed in fierce anger.
- Psalms 11:6He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.
- Isaiah 34:9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.
- Revelation 19:20The beast and the false prophet who had done miracles for the beast were captured. By these miracles the false prophet had deceived those who had the brand of the beast and worshiped its statue. Both of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- Revelation 21:8But cowardly, unfaithful, and detestable people, murderers, sexual sinners, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the fiery lake of burning 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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