Job 21:7
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.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
- KJV
- Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- WEB
- “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- ASV
- Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
- DARBY
- Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
- BLB
- Why do the wicked live on, growing old, even becoming mighty in power?
- ÅB
- Hvorfor blir de ugudelige i live, blir gamle og tiltar endog i velmakt?
- OTB
- Hvorfor fortsetter de onde å leve,
bli gamle og øke i makt? - B1930
- Hvorfor blir de ugudelige i live, blir gamle og tiltar endog i velmakt?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 73:3–12
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Read in contextJob 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Read in contextPsalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:1–3
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Read in contextHabakkuk 1:13
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
Read in contextPsalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Read in contextDaniel 4:17
This 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 ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Read in contextRevelation 13:2–7
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
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