Job 21:27
“Listen, I know what you three are thinking. I know the evil things that you plan to do to me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
Cross References
Job 4:8What I have experienced is this: Just as [MET] farmers who plant bad seeds do not harvest good crops, just as those who start trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.
Job 8:3Almighty God certainly never does [RHQ] what is unfair/unjust. He always does [LIT] what is right/fair.
Job 20:5wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a ◄moment/very short time► [HYP]?
Job 32:3He was also angry with Job’s three friends, because they had declared that Job must have done many things that were wrong, but they were unable to convince Job that what they said was true. As a result, it seemed to Elihu that God did what was wrong by punishing Job.
Psalms 59:4It is not because I have committed any sin against them that they run and get ready to attack me.
Luke 5:22Jesus perceived what they were thinking. So he said to them, “◄You should not think that way about what I said!/Why do you question within yourselves about what I said?► [RHQ] Consider this:
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 →