Job 21:29

NETBible

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts 1  –

NIV ©

Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—

NASB ©

"Have you not asked wayfaring men, And do you not recognize their witness?

NLT ©

But I tell you to ask those who have been around, and they can tell you the truth.

MSG ©

Have you ever asked world travelers how they see it? Have you not listened to their stories

BBE ©

Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

NRSV ©

Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony,

NKJV ©

Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs?

KJV
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NETBible

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts 1  –

NET Notes

1 tc The LXX reads, “Ask those who go by the way, and do not disown their signs.”

1 tn The idea is that the merchants who travel widely will talk about what they have seen and heard. These travelers give a different account of the wicked; they tell how he is spared. E. Dhorme (Job, 322) interprets “signs” concretely: “Their custom was to write their names and their thoughts somewhere at the main cross-roads. The main roads of Sinai are dotted with these scribblings made by such passers of a day.”