Job 21:27
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
26Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
28For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
Cross References
Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 20:5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
Job 32:3and against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they found no answer, and [yet] condemned Job.
Psalms 59:4They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet me, and behold.
Luke 5:22But Jesus, knowing their reasonings, answering said to them, Why reason ye 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 →