Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.
8Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tents of spoilers are at peace, || And those provoking God have confidence, || Into whose hand God has brought.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, || And spreading as a green native plant,
Ecclesiastes 7:15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrongdoer prolonging [himself] in his wrong.
Daniel 4:17by the decree of the sifters [is] the sentence, and by the saying of the holy ones the requirement, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He wills He gives it, and the lowest of men He raises up over it.
Habakkuk 1:15He has brought up each of them with a hook, || He catches it in his net, and gathers it in his dragnet, || Therefore he delights and rejoices.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed whoredom; and those inhabiting the earth were made drunk from the wine of her whoredom”;
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 →