Job 21:28
You may ask me, ‘Where is the home of the great man? Where is the place where the wicked live?’
Free Bible Version
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
27Look, I know what you're thinking, and your schemes to do me wrong.
29Haven't you asked people who travel? Don't you pay attention to what they tell you?
Cross References
Numbers 16:26He ordered the people, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them, otherwise you will be destroyed along with them in all their sins.”
Job 8:22Those who hate you will be put to shame, and the place where the wicked live will be destroyed.”
Job 20:7they will vanish forever like their own excrement. People who knew them will ask, ‘Where have they gone?’
Job 31:37I would explain to him everything I'd done; I would hold my head high before him.
Psalms 52:5But God will strike you down so hard you'll never get up. He will grab hold of you and drag you from your tent. He will tear you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Zechariah 5:4“I have sent the curse out and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who swears lies in my name, declares the Lord Almighty. The curse will remain in that house, and will destroy it, both the timbers and the stones.”
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 →