Job 21:9

Wicked people live in their own houses without being afraid, and God does not punish [MTY] them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

In Context

8They have their children around them, and they watch them while they grow up and start to live in their own houses, and they enjoy their grandchildren.

10Their bulls always mate with the cows successfully, and the cows give birth to calves and never miscarry.

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Cross References

Job 9:34I wish/desire that he would stop punishing [MTY] me, and that he would not continue to terrify me.

Job 18:11Everywhere they went, there were things that caused them to be terrified; it was as though those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels.

Psalms 73:19They will be destroyed instantly; they will die in terrible ways.

Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17

Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →

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