Job 21:7
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.
8Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:15These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Daniel 4:17This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.
Habakkuk 1:15He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
Revelation 17:2With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
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 →