Job 15 · Verse 28

Job 15:28

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

Job 15:28, King James Version

Job 15:28 in other translations

BSB	he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
WEB	He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
ASV	And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
YLT	And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
DARBY	And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
BBE	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.
Webster	And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

What does Job 15:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 28 He dwelleth in desolate cities - It is sometimes the fate of a tyrant to be obliged to take up his habitation in some of those cities which have been ruined by his wars, and in a house so ruinous as to be ready to fall into heaps. Ancient and modern history afford abundance of examples to illustrate this.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 15:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּשְׁכּ֤וֹן\׀vai.yish.Konand he dweltH7931

עָ֘רִ֤ים'a.RimcitiesH5892

נִכְחָד֗וֹתnikh.cha.DotdestroyedH3582

בָּ֭תִּיםBa.timhousesH1004

לֹא\־lo'-[which] notH3808

יֵ֣שְׁבוּYe.she.vupeople will dwellH3427

לָ֑מוֹla.mo<for> themselves

אֲשֶׁ֖ר'a.SherwhichH834

הִתְעַתְּד֣וּhit.'a.te.Duthey are destinedH6257

לְגַלִּֽים\׃le.ga.Limfor heaps of stonesH1530

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Cross references for Job 15:28

Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Jeremiah 26:18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Job 18:15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Isaiah 5:8-10
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 15:27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

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Job 15:28 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y habitó las ciudades asoladas, las casas inhabitadas, que estaban puestas en montones.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et il habitera des villes ruinées, des maisons que personne n’habite, qui vont devenir des monceaux de pierres.
German Elberfelder 1871	und zerstörte Städte bewohnte, Häuser, die nicht bewohnt werden sollten, die zu Steinhaufen bestimmt waren:
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Habitavit in civitatibus desolatis, et in domibus desertis, quæ in tumulos sunt redactæ.