Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
8Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
Psalms 37:35I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:15Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?
Daniel 4:17The tree that thou sawest, which was great and mightie, whose height reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof through all the world,
Habakkuk 1:15They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.
Revelation 17:2With whom haue committed fornication the Kings of the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication.
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 →