Job 18:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

It shall dwell in his tabernacle Destruction, expressed Job 18:12, shall fix its abode with him. Because it is none of his Because it is none of his own, being got from others by deceit or violence. Brimstone shall be scattered on his habitation It shall be utterly destroyed, as it were, by fire and brimstone. He seems to allude both to the destruction of Sodom, which happened not long before these times, and to the judgment which befell Job, chap. Job 1:16. When the stranger hath taken and rifled his dwelling, he shall forsake it as an accursed place, and shall burn it with fire and brimstone, that there may be no monument of so vile a person left upon the earth. Heath's interpretation of this verse is, “They shall take up their habitation in his tent, because he hath no surviver: brimstone shall be sprinkled upon his habitation. As much as to say, ‘Since he hath no one to survive him, his posterity is utterly exterminated: horror takes possession of his habitation, and it is sprinkled with brimstone, that no person may ever after inhabit it; but that it may remain an object of terror to future ages.' The image is grand, and worthy of the tragic style.”