Bible in Basic English
"Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?"
— Job 21:29, Bible in Basic English
“Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,”
“Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, ”
“Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,”
“Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts–”
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?
How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?
He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.