the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Job 18:15
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The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered on his habitation.
Their tents are set on fire, and sulfur is scattered over their homes.
Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
"Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it].
In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
The felowis of hym that is not, dwelle in his tabernacle; brymston be spreynt in his tabernacle.
Fire resides in his tent; brimstone is scattered over his home.
Then their tents and possessions are burned to ashes,
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
"What isn't his at all will live in his tent; sulfur will be scattered on his home.
They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
Nothing will be left in their tents, which will be sprinkled with burning sulfur.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.
Fire destroys everything in his tent and sulphur is spread where he lives.
In their tents nothing remains; sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.
Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.
Others shall dwell in his tent, because there is no one in it; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Now anyone may live in their tents— after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!
There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
Other men shall dwell in his house, and it shalbe none of his, and brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
Nothing he owned remains in his tent.Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
"Nothing remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.
What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone is scattered on his home.
It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion.
"Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone is scattered on his home.
They dwell in his tent who are none of his; Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.
"There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
There dwells in his tent nothing of his;Brimstone is scattered on his abode.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
dwell: Job 18:12, Job 18:13, Zechariah 5:4
because: Job 20:18-21, Job 31:38, Job 31:39, Jeremiah 22:13, Habakkuk 2:6-11
brimstone: Genesis 19:24, Deuteronomy 29:23, Psalms 11:6, Isaiah 34:9, Isaiah 34:10, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 21:8
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:24 - make the rain Job 5:24 - thou shalt know Job 15:28 - desolate Job 20:19 - he hath violently Job 22:23 - thou shalt Proverbs 12:7 - wicked Proverbs 14:11 - house Jeremiah 49:18 - no man Ezekiel 16:50 - therefore Revelation 14:10 - be
Cross-References
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord , which am but dust and ashes:
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
It shall dwell in his tabernacle,.... What shall dwell in it is not said; there are various conjectures about it, and different supplements are made; the Targum is,
"his wife shall dwell in a tabernacle not his;''
and to the same purpose Jarchi; as if it was one part of the punishment of a wicked man, that he should leave a widow behind him, and no house of his own for her to dwell in; but this is the case of the widows of many good men, who themselves, in their lifetime, have no houses of their own, and some no certain dwelling places, yea, have lived in caves and dens of the earth; the mother of our Lord, who seems to have been a widow at his death, was taken by one of his disciples to his own home, which shows she had none of her own. The Vulgate Latin version is,
"his neighbours shall dwell in his tabernacle;''
which some understand of their coming into it after his death, to mourn and bewail him; but as such a visit of his family upon his decease cannot be called dwelling, so this is rather a benefit and favour to his family, than a distress: rather it may signify, that such neighbours whom he had oppressed, and who hated him for his tyranny and cruelty, now should dwell in his house; what he had built, strangers should inhabit, which is a punishment of sin and sinners, Deuteronomy 28:30. Aben Ezra supplies it thus, a strange or evil beast shall dwell in it, as they do in desolate places; and it is frequently given as a sign and token of desolation in countries, cities, and palaces, that they are become the habitations of wild and savage creatures, see
Isaiah 13:19; but it seems best to supply it from the context, either thus, famine, hunger, want of food, shall dwell in it; poverty and want shall come like an armed man into it, and take possession; there shall appear all the marks and signs of penury and distress; or destruction ready at his side shall take up its abode in it, and it shall be called the house of destruction, as a certain city is called the city of destruction, because devoted to it, Isaiah 19:18; or the firstborn of death, some deadly disease, as the pestilence; or death itself, the king of terrors, who is sometimes represented as a person coming up into the windows of a palace, and entering it, and cutting off great numbers; so that it goes ill with him that is left in a tabernacle, where he has his habitation, Jeremiah 9:21; or terror, as Ben Gersom; everyone of the terrors before mentioned, so that no body will care to dwell in it, but forsake it as an haunted house: in short, from the whole it may be gathered, that the curse of God should alight upon it, and remain in it, as it does in the house of the wicked; the same with the flying roll in the vision of Zechariah, the curse of God's righteous law, which enters into the house of the thief and perjurer, and consumes it, Proverbs 3:33; the reason follows,
because [it is] none of his; not by right, being bought or built with mammon of unrighteousness, with money not honestly got, and therefore shall not prosper; or because it is no longer his, he being taken from it by death, the king of terrors, and that not knowing or owning him any more as its master or proprietor, and therefore strangers shall dwell in it; or because there is none that shall be after him, because he shall have none left, or he shall have no survivor h, all his family being taken away by death; and therefore nothing but desolation and destruction shall be seen in it, see Amos 6:9;
brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation; that is, his house should be burnt down by lightning, which is often sulphurous, and sometimes very sensibly has the smell of brimstone in it i. Bildad may refer either to the fire of heaven that destroyed Job's sheep, which was of this kind; or rather to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, by a shower of fire and brimstone from heaven, a fact well known in those times. Moreover, brimstone scattered upon the wicked man's dwelling place may denote the desolation of it, that it should lie in ruins, and be unfit to be inhabited; and the desolation of places is sometimes signified by their being salt, brimstone and burning pitch, Deuteronomy 29:23; yea, this may be carried further, and denote the eternal damnation of all in his house, seeing the burning of Sodom with brimstone was an example to ungodly men suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Judges 1:7; and which is sometimes expressed by brimstone, and a lake burning with fire and brimstone,
Revelation 20:10. Some k think respect is had to the purifying of houses with sulphur, to drive away demons, and remove impurity, to make them fit to dwell in l; and others think it refers to the burning of sulphur in houses at funerals, to testify and exaggerate mourning m.
h So Syr. Ar & Schmidt. i Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. c. 35. k Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 709, 710. l Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. c. 15. Theocrit. Idyll. 25. ver. 95. Homer. Odyss. 22. prope finem. m Vid. Menochium de Repub. Heb. l. 8. c. 6. col. 792.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It 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 sense; and the idea is, that his forsaken tent shall be a place of terror - somewhat, perhaps, as we speak of a forsaken house as “haunted.” It may be that Bildad refers to some such superstitious fear as we sometimes, and almost always in childhood, connect with the idea of a house in which nobody lives.
Because it is none of his - It is no longer his. It is a forsaken, tenantless dwelling.
Brimstone shall be scattered - Brimstone has been always the image of desolation. Nothing will grow on a field that is covered with sulphur; and the meaning here is, that his house would be utterly desolate and forsaken. Rosenmuller and Noyes suppose that there is an allusion here to a sudden destruction, such as was that of Sodom and Gomorrha. Grotius doubts whether it refers to that or to lightning. Others suppose that lightning is referred to both here and in Genesis 19:24; Deuteronomy 29:23. I can see no evidence here, however, that there is any reference to Sodom and Gomorrha, or that there is any allusion to lightning. If the allusion had been to Sodom, it would have been more full. That was a case “just in point” in the argument; and the fact that was exactly in point, and would have furnished to the friends of Job such an irrefragalbe proof of the position which they were defending, and that it is not worked into the very texture of their argument, is full demonstration, to my mind, that that remarkable event is not referred to in this place. The only thing necessarily implied in the language before us is, that sulphur, the emblem of desolation, would be scattered on his dwelling, and that his dwelling would be wholly desolate.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 18:15. It 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: -
[Persic]
[Persic]
Purdeh daree meekund dar keesri Keesar ankeboot
Boomee Noobat meezund ber kumbed Afraseeab.
"The spider holds the veil in the palace of Caesar;
The owl stands sentinel on the watchtower of Afrasiab."
The palaces of those mighty kings are so desolate that the spider is the only chamberlain, and the owl the only sentinel. The web of the former is all that remains as a substitute for the costly veil furnished by the chamberlain in the palace of the Roman monarch; and the hooting of the latter is the only remaining substitute for the sound of drums and trumpets by which the guards were accustomed to be relieved at the watchtower of the Persian king.
The word [Persic] Keesur, the same as καισαρ or Caesar, is the term which the Asiatics always use when they designate the Roman emperor.
Afrasiab was an ancient king who invaded and conquered Persia about seven hundred years before the Christian era. After having reigned twelve years, he was defeated and slain by Zalzer and his son, the famous Rustem. The present reigning family of Constantinople claim descent from this ancient monarch.
Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. — This may either refer to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as has already been intimated, or to an ancient custom of fumigating houses with brimstone, in order to purify them from defilement. PLINY says, Hist. Nat., lib. xxxv., c. 15, speaking of the uses of sulphur, Habet et in religionibus locum ad expiandas suffitu domos; which Dr. Holland paraphrases thus: "Moreover brimstone is employed ceremoniously in hallowing of houses; for many are of opinion that the perfume and burning thereof will keep out all enchantments; yea, and drive away foul fiends and evil sprites that do haunt a place."
OVID refers to the same, De Arte. Am., lib. ii. ver. 329.
Et veniat, quae lustret anus lectumque locumque:
Praeferat et tremula sulphur et ova manu.
This alludes to the ceremony of purifying the bed or place in which a sick person was confined; an old woman or nurse was the operator, and eggs and sulphur were the instruments of purification.
On this and other methods of purgation see an excellent note in Servius on these words of Virgil, AEn. vi., ver. 740.
_______________Aliae panduntur inanes
Suspensae ad ventos: aliis sub gurgite vasto
Infectum eluitur scelus, aut exuritur igni.
"For this are various penances subjoin'd;
And some are hung to bleach upon the wind;
Some plunged in waters, others, plunged in fires."
Unde etiam, says Servius, in sacris Liberi omnibus tres sunt istae purgationes: nam aut taeda purgantur et sulphure, aut aqua abluuntur, aut aere ventilantur.
"These three kinds of purgation are used in the rites of Bacchus: they are purged by flame and sulphur, or washed in water, or ventilated by the winds."
But it is most likely that Bildad, in his usual uncharitable manner, alludes to the destruction of Job's property and family by winds and fire: for the FIRE OF GOD fell from heaven and burnt up the sheep and the servants, and CONSUMED them; and a great wind, probably the sulphureous suffocating simoom, smote the four corners of the house, where Job's children were feasting, and killed them; see Job 1:16; Job 1:19.
