Job 15:28

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.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

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Cross References

Job 3:14With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

Isaiah 5:8Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.

Micah 3:12For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35

17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →

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