Job 21:27
“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
Cross References
Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 32:3Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Psalms 59:4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
Luke 5:22But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
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 →