Job 15:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.”
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“he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 15:28 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
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