Job 15:28

He has lived in desolate cities and deserted houses, which have been turned into tombs.

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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

27Thickness has covered his face, and lard hangs down from his sides.

29He will not be enriched, nor will his basic necessities endure, nor will he establish his root in the earth.

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Cross References

Job 3:14with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,

Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who join house to house, and who combine field to field, even to the limits of the place! Do you intend to live alone in the midst of the earth?

Jeremiah 26:18“Micah from Moresheth was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion will be ploughed like a field. And Jerusalem will be a pile of stones. And the mountain of the house will be like the forests of high places.’

Micah 3:12For this reason, because of you, Zion will be plowed under like a field, and Jerusalem will become like a pile of stones, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of the forests.

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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