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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

Job 15:28 Cross References

Job 18:15

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

Job 3:14

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

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 51:37

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

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.

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.

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.