Job 21:29
27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
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.
31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
- KJV
- Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
- WEB
- Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
- ASV
- Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
- DARBY
- Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
- BLB
- Have you⁺ not asked those passing along the way, and do you⁺ not recognize their signs,
- ÅB
- Har dere aldri spurt dem som har faret vidt omkring? Og dere vil vel ikke forkaste deres vitnesbyrd,
- OTB
- Har dere ikke spurt dem som reiser?
Har dere ikke vurdert deres beretninger— - B1930
- Har I aldri spurt dem som har faret vidt omkring? Og I vil vel ikke forkaste deres vidnesbyrd,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 129:8
May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
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