Job 21: Job Asks Why the Wicked Prosper

Job asks his friends simply to listen, then challenges their claim that the wicked are quickly punished. He points out that many evil people live long and see their families thrive, that death comes alike to the comfortable and the miserable, and that the wicked often get honored burials, so their comfort is empty.

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Where does Job tell his friends to look for evidence about what happens to the wicked (Job 21:29)?

The accounts of travelers who have journeyed far and wideThe judgments recorded long ago in the law of the nationsThe dreams and visions sent to wise men in the night watchesThe decrees written down by the kings of the eastern lands