21:28 For you say,
‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, 1
and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’ 2
21:29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads?
Do you not recognize their accounts 3 –
21:30 that the evil man is spared
from the day of his misfortune,
that he is delivered 4
from the day of God’s wrath?
1 sn The question implies the answer will be “vanished” or “gone.”
2 tn Heb “And where is the tent, the dwellings of the wicked.” The word “dwellings of the wicked” is in apposition to “tent.” A relative pronoun must be supplied in the translation.
3 tc The LXX reads, “Ask those who go by the way, and do not disown their signs.”
4 tn The verb means “to be led forth.” To be “led forth in the day of trouble” means to be delivered.