Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
In Context
6Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
8Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
Cross References
Job 12:6At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
Ecclesiastes 7:15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging [himself] in his wrong.
Daniel 4:17by the decree of the sifters [is] the sentence, and by the saying of the holy ones the requirement, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it, and the lowest of men He doth raise up over it.
Habakkuk 1:15Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'
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 →