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For you say, `Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?`
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Stating the Opposing View
Job is quoting his friends to state their position before he refutes it. Commentators like Albert Barnes explain that the friends' argument is simple: the houses of powerful, wicked people ('princes') are always destroyed as a sign of God's judgment. By stating their view, Job sets the stage to challenge this black-and-white theology.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? - That is, you maintain that the house of the wicked man, in a high station, will be …
19th Century
Anglican
Of the prince — that is, of the generous, virtuous, princely man? —the antithesis to the wicked man. “Behold I know your …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you say Or "have said", or "[I know] that you say"; or "[that] you are about to say" F1 ; it is in yo…
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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 princ…
13th Century
Catholic
Since Job had previously established that evil men sometimes experience prosperity and at other times adversity in this life, which causes doubt, h…
