Job 15:28

Job chapter 15 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

v.28This passage

v.29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.