Job 21:7
Why is it that the wicked live, Grow old, yea, become mighty in substance?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6When I think of it, I am confounded; Trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
8Their children are established in their sight with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are in prosperity, And they who provoke God are secure, Who carry their God in their hand.
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked man in great power, And spreading himself like a green cedar;
Ecclesiastes 7:15All this have I seen in my days of vanity. There are righteous men who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked men who live long in their wickedness.
Daniel 4:17By a decision of the watchers is the decree, and by a command of the holy ones is the sentence; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over them the lowest of men.
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their drag; Therefore they rejoice and exult.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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 →