Job 21:7 · KJV
“Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”
— Job 21:7
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21 — Context
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9Their houses {are} safe from fear, neither {is} the rod of God upon them. {safe...: Heb. peace from}
Cross References
Psalms 73:3-12
For I was envious at the foolish, {when} I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth {abundantly}.
Jeremiah 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? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}
Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Habakkuk 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? {iniquity: or, grievance}
Daniel 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.
Habakkuk 1:15-16
They 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. {drag: or, flue net}