Job 15:28
28 he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
Other Translations of Job 15:28
King James Version
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
English Standard Version
28 and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
The Message
28 They'll end up living in a ghost town sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack.
New King James Version
28 He dwells in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabits, Which are destined to become ruins.
New Living Translation
28 But their cities will be ruined. They will live in abandoned houses that are ready to tumble down.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:28
Commentary on Job 15:17-35
(Read Job 15:17-35)
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?