Job Chapter 15 verse 28 Holy Bible
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
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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.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.
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And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - And he dwelleth in desolate cities. Blot only was he sensual and gluttenous, but he was covetous and rapacious also. He dwelt in cities which his hand had desolated - in houses which no man inhabiteth - since he had driven their owners from them - and which were ready to become heaps, i.e. were in a ruinous condition.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) Which are ready to become heaps.--This completes the description of the haughty tyrant. He dwelt in cities that are to be desolate, or that are desolate, which are ready to become heaps. This may point either to what they were in his intention, or to what he had made them, or to what, in the opinion of the speaker, they were likely to become, notwithstanding his having fortified and dwelt in them.
