²⁸ and has lived in desolate cities,
    in houses that none should inhabit,
    which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
²⁹ he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
    nor will his possessions spread over the earth;^[a]
30 he will not depart from darkness;
    the flame will dry up his shoots,
    and by ^(A)the breath of his mouth he will depart.