Job 21:27
Surely, I know your thoughts and your sinful judgments against me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
26And yet they will sleep together in the dust, and worms will cover them.
28For you say, “Where is the house of the ruler, and where are the tabernacles of the impious?”
Cross References
Job 4:8In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,
Job 8:3Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
Job 20:5that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
Job 32:3Moreover, he was indignant with his friends because they had not found a reasonable response, except in so far as they condemned Job.
Psalms 59:4You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.
Luke 5:22But when Jesus realized their thoughts, responding, he said to them: “What are you thinking in your hearts?
Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →