Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow strong in power?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Yea, when I think of it, I am terrified, and shuddering seizeth hold of my flesh.
8Their seed is firmly established in their presence with them. their offspring are before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6Prosperous are the tents of robbers, and security is given to those that provoke God. to him who carrieth his god in his hand.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible in power, and striking root like a green tree in its native soil.
Ecclesiastes 7:15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is many a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is many a wicked man that liveth long in his wickedness.—
Daniel 4:17(4:14) Through the resolve of the watchers is this decree, and by the order of the holy ones is this decision: to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he can give it to whomsoever he pleaseth, and can set up over it the lowest of men.
Habakkuk 1:15All of them he bringeth up with the angle, he draggeth them up in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.
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 →