Job 21:28
26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to 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
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Read in contextJob 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Read in contextPsalms 52:5–6
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:9–11
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Read in contextNumbers 16:26–34
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
Read in contextPsalms 37:36
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Read in contextZechariah 5:4
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Read in contextJob 1:3
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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