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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”

Further disagreement

27 Look, I know your thoughts;
    your plans harm me.
28 You say, “Where is the official’s house?
    Where is the tent, the dwelling of the wicked?”
29 Haven’t you asked travelers
    or paid attention to their reports?
30 On the day of disaster the wicked are spared;
    on the day of fury they are rescued.
31 Who can criticize their behavior to their faces;
    they act, and who can avenge them?
32 They are carried to their graves;
    someone keeps guard over their tombs.
33 The soil near the desert streambed is sweet to them;
    everyone marches after them—
    those before them, beyond counting.

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