Text -- Job 15:28 (NET)

15:28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 15:28

¹ sn K&D 11:266 rightly explains that these are not cities that he, the wicked, has destroyed, but that were destroyed by a judgment on wickedness. Accordingly, Eliphaz is saying that the wicked man is willing to risk such a curse in his confidence in his prosperity (see further H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 113).

² tn The verbal idea serves here to modify “houses” as a relative clause; so a relative pronoun is added.

³ tn The Hebrew has simply “they are made ready for heaps.” The LXX translates it, “what they have prepared, let others carry away.” This would involve a complete change of the last word.