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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”

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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