Job 21:7
Why do the wicked continue to live, to grow old and increasingly powerful?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Every time I think of what's happened to me I am horrified and I shake all over with fear.
8Their children are with them; they watch their grandchildren grow up.
Cross References
Job 12:6Robbers live in peace, and those who make God angry live in safety, trusting their own strength as their ‘god.’
Psalms 37:35I have watched the wicked acting brutally, spreading like a large tree in its native land.
Ecclesiastes 7:15Throughout my life I've seen so much that is hard to understand. Good people who die young despite doing what is right, and wicked people who live long evil lives.
Daniel 4:17This is the decree conveyed by the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones in order that everyone alive may know that the Most High rules over human kingdoms. He gives them to anyone he chooses—he puts the most humble individuals in charge.’
Habakkuk 1:15They drag everyone up with hooks, they pull them out with nets, catching them in dragnets. Then they happily celebrate.
Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth have committed adultery with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on 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 →