Job 15:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:14 : 14 with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
  • Job 18:15 : 15 Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
  • Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. 9 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them. 10 Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 The LORD said,“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”
  • Jer 26:18 : 18 “Micah from Moresheth prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,“Zion will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble. The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.”’
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?

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    27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Job 18:15-19
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    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • Job 27:18-19
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    18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

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  • Job 20:19-21
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    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

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  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.

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    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

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    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

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    18Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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    15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

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    25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

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    39Therefore desert creatures and jackals will live there. Ostriches will dwell in it too. But no people will ever live there again. No one will dwell there for all time to come.

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    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

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    8Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

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    2Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.

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    11The LORD said,“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”

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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

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    9At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.

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    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

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    7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.