Job 21:28
For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dicitis enim : Ubi est domus principis ? et ubi tabernacula impiorum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὥστε ἐρεῖτε Ποῦ ἐστιν οἶκος ἄρχοντος; καὶ ποῦ ἐστιν ἡ σκέπη τῶν σκηνωμάτων τῶν ἀσεβῶν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י תֹֽאמְר֗וּ אַיֵּ֥ה בֵית נָדִ֑יב וְ֝אַיֵּ֗ה אֹ֤הֶל מִשְׁכְּנ֬וֹת רְשָׁעִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Prince. Job, (Menochius) or rather the tyrant, whose lot we know is miserable, as he falls a victim of God's justice, chap. xx. 7.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XII. To prevent any one from being checked in the exercise of mercy, he shows that God cares for human actions; and proves on the evidence of Job that all wicked men are unhappy in the very abundance of their wealth
45. In thinking of this, deny if thou canst that a recompense is paid by divine judgment. The former feels happy in his heart, the latter wretched; that man on his own verdict is guiltless, this one a criminal; that man again is happy in leaving the world, this man grieves over it. Who can be pronounced guiltless that is not innocent in the sight of his own conscience? “Tell me,” he says, “where is the covering of his tabernacle; his token will not be found.” The life of the criminal is as a dream. He has opened his eyes. His repose has departed, his enjoyment has fled. Nay, that very repose of the wicked, which even while they live is only seeming, is now in hell, for alive they go down into hell.