Desolate places — i.e., gorgeous tombs and splendid sepulchres, which, being tenanted only by the dead, are desolate; or it may mean that the places so built of old are now ruined and desolate. In the former sense it is possible that the Pyramids may here be hinted at.
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Job 3:14
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;