27 “Behold, I know your thoughts
    and your schemes to wrong me.
28 For you say, (A)‘Where is the house of the prince?
    Where is (B)the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
    and do you not accept their testimony
30 that (C)the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
    that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
31 Who declares his way (D)to his face,
    and who (E)repays him for what he has done?
32 When he is (F)carried to the grave,
    watch is kept over his tomb.
33 (G)The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
    (H)all mankind follows after him,
    and those who go before him are innumerable.

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27 “Look, I know your[a] thoughts
and the schemes you devise against me.
28 For you say, ‘Where is the nobleman’s house,
and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’[b]
29 Do you not ask those traveling the roads,
and do you not take notice of their accounts?
30 Indeed, the wicked is spared from the day of disaster;
he is delivered from the day of wrath.
31 Who denounces his way to his face?
And who repays him for what he has done?
32 When[c] he is brought to the grave,
then[d] someone stands guard over the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
everyone will follow after him,
and before[e] him they are innumerable.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:27 Plural
  2. Job 21:28 Literally “tent of dwelling places of wicked”
  3. Job 21:32 Hebrew “And”
  4. Job 21:32 Hebrew “and”
  5. Job 21:33 Literally “to the faces of”
  6. Job 21:33 Literally “there is not number”