Job 18:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.”
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“Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.”
King James Version · Public Domain“There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“It dwelleth in his tent--out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 18:15 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 28:24The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- 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.
- Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
- Job 18:12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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?’
- 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.”
- 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.”
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