Job 21:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?”
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BSBPD
“Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 21:7 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
- Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
- Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
- Psalms 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Daniel 4:17This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
- Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
- Habakkuk 1:15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
- Revelation 13:2The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.
- Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
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