Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Ecclesiastes 7:15All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
Daniel 4:17“‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’
Habakkuk 1:15He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell on the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
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 →