Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
26[And yet] together they must lie down in the dust, and the worms will cover them?
Cross References
Job 4:8Even as I have seen, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same.
Job 8:3Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 20:5That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.
Job 32:3And against his three friends was his wrath kindled; because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Psalms 59:4(59:5) Without guilt [in me] they run and make themselves ready: awake, [come] toward me, and behold.
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 →