God’s Word Translation
Job 21:29
29Haven’t you asked travelers? But you didn’t pay attention to their directions.
Job 21:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
- New International Version (NIV)Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
- English Standard Version (ESV)Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
- New King James Version (NKJV)Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs?
Context of Job 21:29
27“You see, I know your thoughts and the schemes you plot against me 28because you ask, ‘Where is the house of the influential person? Where is the tent where wicked people live?’ Haven’t you asked travelers? But you didn’t pay attention to their directions. 30On the day of disaster the wicked person is spared. On the day of ⌞God’s⌟ anger he is rescued. 31Who will tell him to his face how he lived? Who will pay him back for what he did?
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הֲלֹ֣א שְׁ֭אֶלְתֶּם ע֣וֹבְרֵי דָ֑רֶךְ וְ֝אֹתֹתָ֗ם לֹ֣א תְנַכֵּֽרוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:29
Commentaries on Job 21:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - This appears to be Job's answer. Consult travelers who have gone through different countries; and they will tell you that they have seen both examples - the wicked in great prosperity in some instances, while suddenly destroyed in others. See at the end of the chapter, Job 21:34; (note). Do ye not know their tokens - Mr. Good translates the whole verse thus: "Surely thou canst never have inquired of men of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - Travelers, who have passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of making observations, and of learning the opinions of those residing there. The idea of Job is, that they might have learned from such travelers that such people were “reserved” for future destruction, and that calamity did not immediately overtake them. Information was obtained in ancient times by careful observation, and by…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 27-34Verses 27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to whom you will, you will find that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, Jude 1:14, 15. The sinner is here supposed to live in a great deal of power. The sinner shall have a splendid funeral: a poor thing for any man…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. Job, seeing that the friends will not admit him as an impartial judge, as they consider his calamities prove his guilt, begs them to ask the opinion of travellers (La 1:12), who have the experience drawn from observation, and who are no way connected with him. Job opposes this to Bildad (Job 8:8) and Zophar (Job 20:4). tokens--rather, "intimations" (for example, inscriptions, proverbs, signifying the results of their observation), testimony…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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