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Job 15:28
Job 15:28 is verse 28 of Job chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
King James Version
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
World English Bible
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
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Job 15:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
26 rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.
27 Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
28 he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
30 He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Isaiah 5:9I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Jeremiah 26:18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.