Job 21:28
For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
In Context
27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
29Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
Cross References
Numbers 16:26He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.
Job 8:22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
Job 20:7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
Job 31:37At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
Psalms 52:5Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.
Zechariah 5:4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to 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.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:28-34
Punishment of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28 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. 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 32 Yet shall he be… Read the whole commentary →