Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Ecclesiastes 7:15All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.
Daniel 4:17The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over i
Habakkuk 1:15He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth fornicated, and those who inhabit the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:2-7
The Reply of Job to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he… Read the whole commentary →