Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
8Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Ecclesiastes 7:15In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
Daniel 4:17This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
Habakkuk 1:15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
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 →