Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
Ecclesiastes 7:15All [this] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous [man] that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his days] by his wickedness.
Daniel 4:17This sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the word of the holy ones: that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Habakkuk 1:15He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk 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 →