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Job 21:28
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks to his friends immediately after declaring he knows their accusatory schemes, right before he urges them to consult travelers about the actual fate of the wicked.
The words — The verse centers on תֹֽאמְר֗וּ (to.me.Ru) = "you say" and אַיֵּ֥ה ('ai.Yeh) = "where?", which frame the friends' rhetorical questions as a direct challenge to their own claims.
The thread — The motif of questioning the location or destruction of the wicked’s dwellings runs through Job 20:7, Job 8:22, and Numbers 16:26, where the removal of tents or houses marks divine judgment.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to verify doctrinal claims against observable reality, forcing a direct test of whether the friends' theology matches the actual conditions of the wicked.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Cross-references
- Job 8:22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
- Job 20:7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- Numbers 16:26 And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
- Job 1:3 and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Job 31:37 I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
- Psalms 37:36 yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Psalms 52:5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Zechariah 5:4 I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”