Job 21:27
Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
In Context
26Together — on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
28For ye say, 'Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent — The tabernacles of the wicked?'
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen — ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Job 32:3and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
Psalms 59:4Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.
Luke 5:22And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, 'What reason ye 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 →