Job 21:27-33

New International Reader's Version

²⁷ “I know exactly what you people are thinking.
    I know you are planning to do bad things to me.
²⁸ You are saying to yourselves,
    ‘Where is the great man’s house now?
    Where are the tents where his evil family lived?’
²⁹ Haven’t you ever asked questions of those who travel?
    Haven’t you paid any attention to their stories?
³⁰ They’ll tell you that sinful people
    are spared from the day of trouble.
They’ll say that those people
    are saved from the day when God will judge.
³¹ Who speaks against them for the way they act?
    Who pays them back for what they’ve done?
³² Their bodies will be carried to their graves.
    Guards will watch over their tombs.
³³ The soil in the valley will be pleasant
    to those who have died.
Many people will walk along behind their bodies.
    Many others will walk in front of them.