Job 21:28
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For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Where

Job 20:7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Psalm 37:36 And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.

Psalm 52:5,6 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living. . . .

Habakkuk 2:9-11 Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil. . . .

Zechariah 5:4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to 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.

dwelling places.

Numbers 16:26-34 He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins. . . .

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me. 28For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?29Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.…
Cross References
Job 1:3
And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

Job 8:22
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.

Job 18:21
These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.

Job 21:27
Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.

Job 21:29
Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.

Job 31:37
At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

Psalm 132:3
If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go up into the bed wherein I lie:

Lexicon
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

you say,
תֹֽאמְר֗וּ (ṯō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

‘Where
אַיֵּ֥ה (’ay·yêh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 346: Where?

now is the nobleman’s
נָדִ֑יב (nā·ḏîḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5081: Voluntary, generous, magnanimous, a grandee

house,
בֵית־ (ḇêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house

and where
וְ֝אַיֵּ֗ה (wə·’ay·yêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 346: Where?

are the tents
אֹ֤הֶל ׀ (’ō·hel)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 168: A tent

in which the wicked
רְשָׁעִֽים׃ (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

dwell?’
מִשְׁכְּנ֬וֹת (miš·kə·nō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle


Additional Translations
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

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

For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

For ye say, 'Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
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