28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-35)Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job’s attention, which he had litt…
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