Job 21:7
Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6As for me, when I think it over, I am afraid, and trembling convulses my body.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
Ecclesiastes 7:15In good times, enjoy good things, but beware of an evil time. For just as God has established the one, so also the other, in order that man may not find any just complaint against him.
Daniel 4:17The tree that you saw was lofty and strong; its height reached toward heaven, and it could be seen throughout the whole world.
Habakkuk 1:15He lifted up everything with his hook. He drew them in with his dragnet, and gathered them into his netting. Over this, he will rejoice and exult.
Revelation 17:2With her, the kings of the earth have fornicated. And those who inhabit the earth have been inebriated by the wine of her prostitution.”
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 →