For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?
Ver. 28. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince?] Ye say though not in so many words, yet upon the matter, Where is this man's (Job's) princely pomp and port, that but even now was so splendid? A prince they called Job in a jeer, and by contraries, Per ironiam et antiphrasin, saith Vatablus, because he had been rich, and should have been liberal and munificent, but had not been so. The apostle calleth the Pharisees and philosophers, in like sort, "princes of this world," 1 Corinthians 2:8 .
And where are the dwelling places] The palaces, large and lofty, ut sunt praetoria et principum aedes, as the houses of princes use to be (Junius). Lavater rendereth it, The tabernacle of tabernacles, as gentlemen's houses among us are called, places, halls, courts, &c., Tahernaculum habitaculorum.
Of the wicked?] viz. Of Job and his children, the eldest son's especially, which was blown down, Job 1:18. As if it might not befall a good man also to have his house plundered, burnt, his children brained, &c. They had often in their discourses jerked at Job's children.