Job 1:16, 15:34, 18:15 | JFB | e4.org | 16. fire of God —Hebraism for "a mighty fire"; as "cedars of God"—"lofty cedars" [ ]. Not lightning, which would not consume all the sheep and servants. UMBREIT understands it of the burning wind of Arabia, called by the Turks "wind of poison." "The prince of the power of the air" [ ] is permitted to have control over such destructive agents.

‏ Job 1:16

16. fire of God—Hebraism for "a mighty fire"; as "cedars of God"—"lofty cedars" [Ps 80:10]. Not lightning, which would not consume all the sheep and servants. UMBREIT understands it of the burning wind of Arabia, called by the Turks "wind of poison." "The prince of the power of the air" [Eph 2:2] is permitted to have control over such destructive agents.

‏ Job 15:34

34. Rather, The binding together of the hypocrites (wicked) shall be fruitless [UMBREIT].

tabernacles of bribery—namely, dwellings of unjust judges, often reprobated in the Old Testament (Isa 1:23). The "fire of God" that consumed Job's possessions (Job 1:16) Eliphaz insinuates may have been on account of Job's bribery as an Arab sheik or emir.

‏ Job 18:15

15. It—"Terror" shall haunt, &c., and not as UMBREIT, "another," which the last clause of the verse disproves.

none of his—It is his no longer.

brimstone—probably comparing the calamity of Job by the "fire of God" (Job 1:16) to the destruction of guilty Sodom by fire and brimstone (Ge 19:24).