Job 18:15

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Job 18:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

16 The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

17 The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

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Job 18:12

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Zechariah 5:4

I 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.”

Job 20:18

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Job 20:20

Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.

Job 20:21

Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.

Job 31:38

if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Job 31:39

if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

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 2:6

Will 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?’

Habakkuk 2:7

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Habakkuk 2:10

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All 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.

Psalms 11:6

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Isaiah 34:10

It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

Revelation 19:20

But 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 21:8

But 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.”