Job 18:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תִּשְׁכּוֹן בְּאָהֳלוֹ מִבְּלִי־לוֹ יְזֹרֶה עַל־נָוֵהוּ גָפְרִית

Transliteration

tiškôn bəʾohŏlô mibbəlî-lô yəzōreh ʿal-nāwēhû gop̄rîṯ

Grammar Details

• *tiškôn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it will dwell
• *bəʾohŏlô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his tent
• *mibbəlî-lô*: preposition + negation + preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - from lack to him
• *yəzōreh*: Pual imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be scattered
• *ʿal-nāwēhû*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - upon his habitation
• *gop̄rîṯ*: noun, feminine singular - sulfur

Word Meanings

• *tiškôn*: will dwell/reside/inhabit
• *bəʾohŏlô*: in his tent/dwelling
• *mibbəlî-lô*: from lack to him/because it is not his/what does not belong to him
• *yəzōreh*: will be scattered/sprinkled/strewn
• *ʿal-nāwēhû*: upon his habitation/dwelling place
• *gop̄rîṯ*: sulfur/brimstone

Referenced Verses

• Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
• Isa 34:9-9 : 9 And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• Job 18:12-13 : 12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side. 13 The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members.
• Job 20:18-21 : 18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. 19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. 20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. 21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
• Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
• Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;
• Hab 2:6-9 : 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them? 8 Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein. 9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
• Zech 5:4 : 4 I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, {G1722} wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
• Gen 19:24 : 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;