“For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?”
"For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'" The friends ask where the wicked person now lives, implying that his house is gone, destroyed. Job will respond that the friends are wrong—the wicked person's house endures.
Church Fathers on Job 21:28
Behold I know your thoughts, and the devices that ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwellings of the wicked? For they had imagined him a wicked man, whom they saw, his substance gone, in a temporal way ruined. But the holy man judges them with a lofty review in proportion as amidst the losses which he had met with, he was standing with undiminished uprightness. For how had his losses of substance without hurt…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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