And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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Interpretation
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people.