Job 21:28
New International Version
You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’

New Living Translation
You will tell me of rich and wicked people whose houses have vanished because of their sins.

English Standard Version
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Berean Standard Bible
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

King James Bible
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

New King James Version
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent, The dwelling place of the wicked?’

New American Standard Bible
“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?’

NASB 1995
“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?’

NASB 1977
“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?’

Legacy Standard Bible
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?’

Amplified Bible
“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man? And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’

Christian Standard Bible
For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ” and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?” and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”

American Standard Version
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because you have said: ‘Where is the house of the righteous one, and what is the dwelling of the tent of the wicked?’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

Contemporary English Version
You ask, "Where is the home of that important person who does so much evil?"

Douay-Rheims Bible
For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

English Revised Version
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because you ask, 'Where is the house of the influential person? Where is the tent where wicked people live?'

Good News Translation
You ask, "Where are the homes of great people now, those who practiced evil?"

International Standard Version
You ask, 'Where is the noble person's house?' and 'Where are the tents where the wicked live?'

JPS Tanakh 1917
For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'

Literal Standard Version
For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?

Majority Standard Bible
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

New American Bible
For you say, “Where is the house of the great, and where the dwelling place of the wicked?”

NET Bible
For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'

New Revised Standard Version
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

New Heart English Bible
For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

Webster's Bible Translation
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

World English Bible
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Young's Literal Translation
For ye say, 'Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 28For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’ 29Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?…

Cross References
Job 1:3
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Job 8:22
Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."

Job 18:21
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God."

Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 21:29
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Job 31:37
I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)--

Psalm 132:3
"I will not enter my house or get into my bed,


Treasury of Scripture

For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Where

Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Psalm 37:36
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Psalm 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…

dwelling places.

Numbers 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…

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Job 21
1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God
16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world














(28) Of the prince--i.e., of the generous, virtuous, princely man?--the antithesis to the wicked man. "Behold I know your thoughts, for ye say, How can we tell who is virtuous and who is wicked? and consequently we know not to which catalogue you belong." They had all along been insinuating that, though he seemed to be righteous, he was really wicked.

Verse 28. - For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? i.e. "What has become of the house of the powerful man (Job himself)? How is it fallen and gone to decay!" And whore are the dwelling-places (literally, the tent of the habitations) of the wicked! Again Job is intended, although the insult is veiled by the plural form being used. Job supposes that his opponents will meet his statement, that the righteous are afflicted and the wicked prosper, by pointing to his own case as one in which wickedness has been punished.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you say,
תֹֽאמְר֗וּ (ṯō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘Where
אַיֵּ֥ה (’ay·yêh)
Interrogative
Strong's 346: Where?

now is the nobleman’s
נָדִ֑יב (nā·ḏîḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5081: Voluntary, generous, magnanimous, a grandee

house,
בֵית־ (ḇêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

and where
וְ֝אַיֵּ֗ה (wə·’ay·yêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 346: Where?

are the tents
אֹ֤הֶל ׀ (’ō·hel)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 168: A tent

in which the wicked
רְשָׁעִֽים׃ (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

dwell?’
מִשְׁכְּנ֬וֹת (miš·kə·nō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle


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