Job 21:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 21:28 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 8:22
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Psalms 37:36
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Habakkuk 2:9-11
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! …
Zechariah 5:4
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Topics

Self-Righteousness Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-34)

In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and none but the wicked, upon which principle they condemned Job as a wicked man. “ I know your thoughts,” says Job (Job 21:27); “I know you will not agree with me; for your judgments are tinctured and bia…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. ye say--referring to Zophar (Job 20:7). the house--referring to the fall of the house of Job’s oldest son (Job 1:19) and the destruction of his family. prince--The parallel “wicked” in the second clause requires this to be taken in a bad sense, tyrant, oppressor (Is 13:2), the same Hebrew, “nobles”--oppressors. dwelling-places--rather, “pavilions,” a tent containing many dwellings, such as a g…