Job 21:7
Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:
Ecclesiastes 7:15In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.
Daniel 4:17The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose height reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth:
Habakkuk 1:15He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.
Revelation 17:2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom.
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 →