Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.
Daniel 4:17This matter 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 whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the base of men.
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Revelation 17:2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk 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 →