Job 15:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, And in houses which no man inhabiteth, Which are ready to become heaps.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And has lived in desolate [God-forsaken] cities and in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps [of ruins];

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

Common English Bible

²⁸ They lived in ruined cities, unoccupied houses that turn to rubble.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ He has lived in desolate cities and deserted houses, which have been turned into tombs.

Job 15:28 Cross References

Job 3:14

with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuild ruins for themselves,

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Jeremiah 51:37

and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth, who prophesied during the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Job 18:15

In their tents nothing remains; sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.