Job 15:28
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New International Version (©1984)
he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He has lived in desolate cities, In houses no one would inhabit, Which are destined to become ruins.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He lives in ruined cities where no one dwells, in houses that are doomed to be piles of rubble.

King James Bible
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

American King James Version
And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

American Standard Version
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

Bible in Basic English
And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

Darby Bible Translation
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.

English Revised Version
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

World English Bible
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Young's Literal Translation
And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

Geneva Study Bible

And he dwelleth {r} in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

(r) Though he build and repair ruinous places to gain fame, yet God will bring all to nothing, and turn his great prosperity into extreme misery.

Wesley's Notes

15:28 But - This is fitly opposed to the prosperity last mentioned, and is the beginning of the description of his misery.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. The class of wicked here described is that of robbers who plunder "cities," and seize on the houses of the banished citizens (Isa 13:20). Eliphaz chooses this class because Job had chosen the same (Job 12:6).

heaps-of ruins.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?


Job 3:14 With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Isaiah 5:8 Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 5:9 In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants. (NASB ©1995)

Broken Cities Cut Desolate Destined Dwelleth Dwelt Fate Heaps Houses Inhabit Inhabited Inhabiteth Masses Pulled Ready Resting-Place Right Rubble Ruined Ruins Towns


And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

desolate 3:14 18:15 Isa 5:8-10 Mic 7:18

which are ready Jer 9:11 26:18 51:37 Mic 3:12

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