Job 15:28

he lived in ruined towns ¹  and in houses where ²  no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. ³ 

biblegateway Job 15:28

he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no-one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

biblegateway Job 15:28

"He has lived in desolate cities, In houses no one would inhabit, Which are destined to become ruins.

biblegateway Job 15:28

but their cities will be ruined. They will live in abandoned houses that are ready to tumble down.

biblegateway Job 15:28

They'll end up living in a ghost town sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack.

SABDAweb Job 15:28

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

bibleoremus Job 15:28

they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;

biblegateway Job 15:28

He dwells in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabits, Which are destined to become ruins.

biblegateway Job 15:28

he lived in ruined towns ¹  and in houses where ²  no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. ³ 

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.