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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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27 “I know full well what you are thinking,
    the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,(A)
    the tents where the wicked lived?’(B)
29 Have you never questioned those who travel?
    Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
30 that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,(C)
    that they are delivered from[a] the day of wrath?(D)
31 Who denounces their conduct to their face?
    Who repays them for what they have done?(E)
32 They are carried to the grave,
    and watch is kept over their tombs.(F)
33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them;(G)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes[b] before them.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:30 Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to
  2. Job 21:33 Or them, / as a countless throng went