29 Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts-
29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
29 Have you ever asked world travelers how they see it? Have you not listened to their stories
29 Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs?
29 But ask those who have been around, and they will tell you the truth.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 21:29
Commentary on Job 21:27-34
(Read Job 21:27-34)
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 to be proud of the prospect of. He shall have a stately monument. And a valley with springs of water to keep the turf green, was accounted an honourable burial place among eastern people; but such things are vain distinctions. Death closes his prosperity. It is but a poor encouragement to die, that others have died before us. That which makes a man die with true courage, is, with faith to remember that Jesus Christ died and was laid in the grave, not only before us, but for us. That He hath gone before us, and died for us, who is alive and liveth for us, is true consolation in the hour of death.