Job 41:21
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
BSB
ASV
His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
KJV
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
His breath kindleth coals. And a flame goeth out of his mouth. 67. For what does He call 'coals,' but the minds of reprobate men, kindled with earthly desires. For they are on fire when they seek after any temporal object; doubtless because their longings, which suffer not their mind to be quiet and whole ['integrum'], inflame them. The breath of Leviathan therefore kindles the coals, as often as his secret suggestion allures the minds of men to unlawful pleasures.
His breath kindleth coals - It seems to be a flame, and to set on fire all around it. So Hesiod, “Theog.” i. 319, describing the creation of the Chimera, speaks of it as πνέουσαν ἀμαισάκετον πῦρ pneousan amaimaketon pur. “Breathing unquenchable fire,” So Virgil, “Georg.” ii.
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Habakkuk 3:5Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
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Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon,…
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
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Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a…
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He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
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Psalms 18:12From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
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As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by…