John Trapp on Job 15:28

Verſe 28. And he dwelleth in deſolate Cities] Such as had been before deſolated, but are now by him re-edified, to get him a name and renown amongſt men,Ad numinis contemptum & hominum terrorem. Merlin. and to make himſelf formidable, as thoſe do, who build themſelves ſtrong holds upon high Rocks, as if they would wage war againſt heaven. Peradventure (ſaith Deodate here) he meaneth thoſe Kings of violent Empires, who repaired or built great Cities after the Deluge, as Nimrod, Aſhur and others, Gen. 10.8. Job 3.14. Iſai. 23.13. and raiſed themſelves upon other mens ruines. Eliphaz his ſcope is to ſhew, that a man that hath great power amongſt men, begins to think himſelf ſtrong enough for God alſo.

And in houſes where no man inhabiteth] For he hath driven away the Inhabitants through his oppreſſions. This is that crying ſin of Depopulatours, who build themſelves deſolate places, Job 3.14. And Encloſers, who betray Townes, as Rome did Carthage, with a diſtinction, We will ſave the City, but deſtroy the Town. This hath been noted as a great fault in our Nation, and therefore Goropius thinks the Engliſh were called Angli. becauſe they were good Anglers, and had skill to lay diverſe baites when they fiſhed for others mens livings. But that's his miſtake (though perhaps wilful,) for we were ſo called from the old Angli who came in with the Saxons, and were ſubdued by the Normans, whoſe Duke, William the Conqueror, paid dear for his depopulations at New Forreſt, wherein ſix and thirty Pariſh Churches had been demoliſhed, and the Inhabitants removed, to make room for beaſts or dogs game. Diverſe of his ſons and Nephews came there to untimely ends, ſo dangerous it is for men to prove Abaddons or Deſtroyers.

Which are ready to become heapes.] Heaps of ſtones, the ſtrongeſt ſtructures in the world are ſubject to ruine. Make ſure of heaven, which the Philoſopher fondly dreamt to be made of ſtone (arch-work) and would one day come to raine. But whatever becometh of the viſible heavens, which ſhall be purged by the fire of the laſt day, upon the inviſible we may well write, as Hyppocrates telleth us it was engraven on the gates of a certain City, Intacta manet, it remaineth untouched: And as the Venetians boaſt of their City, that ſhe is ſtill a Virgin, becauſe from the firſt founding thereof (which is 1200 years ſince, or neer upon) it never came into the hands of a forraine enemy.