Job 15:28
And dwelt in desolated cities, In houses which no man inhabiteth, That are ready to become heaps.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
27Because he covered his face with fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins,
Cross References
Job 3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up for themselves—ruins!
Isaiah 5:8Woe to them that join house to house, That add field to field, Till there is no place left, And they dwell alone in the land.
Jeremiah 26:18Micah, the Morasthite, prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of stones, and the mountain of the house [[of Jehovah]] as the heights of a forest.
Micah 3:12Therefore because of you shall Zion be ploughed as a field, And Jerusalem become heaps of stones, And the mountain of the temple like the heights of a forest.
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 →