Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
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Gill's Exposition
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?.... That is, that they are spared, withheld, restrained, as the word (d) signifies, or kept and preserved from many calamities and distresses,…
Barnes' Notes
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - Travelers, who have passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of making observations, and of learning the opinions of those residing…
In these verses,
I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and…
Travellers give a different account of the fate of the wicked; they tell that he is spared in the day of destruction:
29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way,
And do ye not regard their…