Job 15:28

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:14 : 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
  • Job 18:15 : 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
  • Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 9 In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
  • Mic 3:12 : 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 a forest.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.

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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

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    27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Job 18:15-19
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    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

    19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

  • Job 27:18-19
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    77%

    18He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

    19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

  • Job 20:19-21
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    19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

    20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

    21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

    9In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

  • Job 33:21
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    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

  • Jer 49:18
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    18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

  • Job 20:26
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

  • Ps 69:25
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    25Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.

  • Jer 50:39-40
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    39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

    40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

  • Job 20:28
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    28The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

  • Zeph 3:6
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    6I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  • Job 18:21
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    21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

  • Job 3:14
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    14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

  • Job 39:6
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    6Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

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    37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

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    43Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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    23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Jer 4:29
    73%

    29Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

  • Isa 33:8
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    8The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

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    11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

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    9Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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    10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

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    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

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    9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

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    15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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    21A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

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    7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.