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27 “Behold, I know your thoughts,
    the plans with which you would wrong me.
28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
    Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?
    Don’t you know their evidences,
30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,
    That they are led out to the day of wrath?
31 Who will declare his way to his face?
    Who will repay him what he has done?
32 Yet he will be borne to the grave.
    Men will keep watch over the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him.
    All men will draw after him,
    as there were innumerable before him.

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Job Suspects His Friends of Treachery

27 “Look! I know your thoughts,
    your plans[a] are going to harm me.
28 You ask, ‘Where is the noble person’s house?’
    and ‘Where are the tents where the wicked live?’
29 Haven’t you asked travelers on the highway?
    Don’t you accept their word
30 that the wicked person is spared from times of calamity,
    that he is rescued on the day of wrath?
31 Who will expose his conduct to his face?
    Who will repay him for what he has done
32 when he is carried away to the cemetery
    and guardians are placed to watch his tomb?
33 The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him;
    everyone will follow after him;
        countless crows march ahead of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:27 Or purposes