Job 21:28
26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
- KJV
- For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
- WEB
- For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
- ASV
- For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?
- DARBY
- For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
- BLB
- For you⁺ say, ‘Where [is] the house of the noble? And where [is] the tent of the habitation of the wicked?’
- ÅB
- for dere sier: Hvor er tyrannens hus, og hvor er det telt de ugudelige bor i?
- OTB
- Dere spør: ‘Hvor er nå den edles hus,
teltene hvor de onde bodde?’ - B1930
- for I sier: Hvor er tyrannens hus, og hvor er det telt de ugudelige bor i?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 8:22
Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Read in contextJob 20:7
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Read in contextPsalms 52:5–6
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:9–11
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Read in contextNumbers 16:26–34
And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
Read in contextPsalms 37:36
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
Read in contextZechariah 5:4
I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
Read in contextJob 1:3
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
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