Job 21:27
Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
26Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
Job 8:3Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Job 32:3and his anger has burned against his three friends, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
Psalms 59:4Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, || Stir up to meet me, and see.
Luke 5:22And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said to them, “What reason you in your hearts?
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 →