Job 21:7
“ But let me ask this: ‘Why do wicked people continue to live, and become prosperous, and not die until they are very old?’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6When I think about what has happened to me, I am frightened and my entire body shakes.
Cross References
Job 12:6Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god that they worship.
Psalms 37:35I have seen that wicked people who ◄act like tyrants/terrify people► sometimes prosper, like trees that grow well in fertile soil,
Ecclesiastes 7:15During all the time that I have been alive I have seen a lot of [HYP] things that seem senseless. I have seen righteous people die while they are still young, and I have seen wicked people remain alive for a very long time in spite of their continuing to be wicked.
Daniel 4:17The holy angels have decided what must happen. They want to inform everyone that the Supreme God rules over all the kingdoms in this world. He is the one who chooses who will rule these kingdoms. He sometimes allows very unimportant people to become rulers.”
Habakkuk 1:15The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish [RHQ] for them to pull out of the sea with hooks or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
Revelation 17:2It is as though the rulers of earth have acted immorally and idolatrously with the people of that city [MET], and they have persuaded people who live on the earth to act immorally and idolatrously with them [MET], just like a prostitute persuades men to drink the strong wine she gives them, resulting in their becoming drunk and then committing sexual immorality. with her.”
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 →