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 “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