Job 15:28

World English Bible (2000)

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:14 : 14 with kings and counselors 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. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
  • Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 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 spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 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 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

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    27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

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

  • Job 18:15-19
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    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

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

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  • Job 27:18-19
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    18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

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

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  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

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    13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • Jer 49:18
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    18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

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    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

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    15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

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    25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

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    39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

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    28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

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  • Job 18:21
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    21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

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    6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

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    43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

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

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    7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.