Job 21:28
For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?
Literal Standard 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
27Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.
29Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?
Cross References
Numbers 16:26and he speaks to the congregation, saying, “Now turn aside from the tents of these wicked men, and do not come against anything that they have, lest you are consumed in all their sins.”
Job 8:22Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”
Job 20:7He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he?
Job 31:37The number of my steps I tell Him, || As a leader I approach Him.
Psalms 52:5Also—God breaks you down forever, || Takes you, and pulls you out of the tent, || And He has uprooted you || Out of the land of the living. Selah.
Zechariah 5:4“I have brought it out,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “and it has come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who has sworn in My Name with a falsehood, and it has remained in the midst of his house, and has consumed it, both its wood and its 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 →