28 You say, 'Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?'
28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
28 Naively you claim that the castles of tyrants fall to pieces, that the achievements of the wicked collapse.
28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent, The dwelling place of the wicked?'
28 You will tell me of rich and wicked people whose houses have vanished because of their sins.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 21:28
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.