Job 18:15
Good News Translation
Now anyone may live in their tents--after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!

New Revised Standard Version
In their tents nothing remains; sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.

Contemporary English Version
Then their tents and possessions are burned to ashes,

New American Bible
Fire lodges in his tent, over his abode brimstone is scattered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

dwell

Job 18:12,13 Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs. . . .

Zechariah 5:4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.

because

Job 20:18-21 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer. . . .

Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: . . .

Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.

Habakkuk 2:6-11 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay? . . .

brimstone

Genesis 19:24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Deuteronomy 29:23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Isaiah 34:9,10 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. . . .

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
14Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king. 15Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.16Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.…
Cross References
Luke 17:29
And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

Psalm 11:6
The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Jeremiah 49:18
As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no son of man inhabit it.

Zechariah 5:4
I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.

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