Job 15:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. He dwelleth in desolate cities - It is sometimes the fate of a tyrant to be obliged to take up his habitation in some of those cities which have been ruined by his wars, and in a house so ruinous as to be ready to fall into heaps. Ancient and modern history afford abundance of examples to illustrate this.