Job 21:7
Madu'a (why) do the resha'im live, 1 become old, yea, are mighty in power? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Even when I remember I am afraid, 1 and trembling taketh hold on my basar. 1
8Their zera is established in their sight with them, 1 and their offspring before their eyes. 1
Cross References
Job 12:6The ohalim of shodedim (robbers) remain in peace; 1 they that defy El are secure, 1 who Eloah brought forth by His yad. 1
Psalms 37:35I have seen the violently powerful rashah, 1 spreading himself like an indigenous green tree. 1
Ecclesiastes 7:15All things have I seen in the yamim of my hevel; there is a tzaddik that perisheth in his tzedakah, and there is a rasha that prolongeth his life in his ra'ah.
Daniel 4:17The etz that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto Shomayim, and the visibility thereof extended to kol ha'aretz;
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with a khakkah (hook), 1 they catch them in their net, 1 and gather them in their dragnet; 1 therefore they have simcha (joy) and are glad. 1
Revelation 17:2With whom the melachim (kings) of kol ha'aretz (all the earth) have committed zenut (fornication) and with the yayin of whose zenut (fornication) kol ha'aretz (all the earth) has fallen into shichrut (drunkenness).”
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 →