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Job 21:29-31
New English Translation
Job 21:29-31
New English Translation
29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads?
Do you not recognize their accounts[a]—
30 that the evil man is spared
from the day of his misfortune,
that he is delivered[b]
from the day of God’s wrath?
31 No one denounces his conduct to his face;
no one repays him for what[c] he has done.[d]
Footnotes
- Job 21:29 tc The LXX reads, “Ask those who go by the way, and do not disown their signs.”tn The idea is that the merchants who travel widely will talk about what they have seen and heard. These travelers give a different account of the wicked; they tell how he is spared. E. Dhorme (Job, 322) interprets “signs” concretely: “Their custom was to write their names and their thoughts somewhere at the main cross-roads. The main roads of Sinai are dotted with these scribblings made by such passers of a day.”
- Job 21:30 tn The verb means “to be led forth.” To be “led forth in the day of trouble” means to be delivered.
- Job 21:31 tn The expression “and he has done” is taken here to mean “what he has done.”
- Job 21:31 tn Heb “Who declares his way to his face? // Who repays him for what he has done?” These rhetorical questions, which expect a negative answer (“No one!”) have been translated as indicative statements to bring out their force clearly.
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